- Date
- January 8, 2025, 13:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Harvard, IL · Dacy Airport (0C0), Harvard, IL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1935VCessna 182H
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) start-up: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO GL03
- FAA report
- 20250108001079A
- Case key
- 199527
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to control the airplane during the engine start which resulted in a collision with the hangar.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot moved the airplane from his hangar to go flying. The airplane was positioned about 20 ft from the edge of the hangar. The pilot stated that he initially had trouble starting the engine, so he advanced the throttle to full, and the engine started. The pilot stated that he held the brakes while he was starting the airplane and after the engine started, the airplane rolled into the edge of the hangar. The fuselage and left wing of the airplane sustained substantial damage during the collision. The pilot estimated that the entire event lasted about 2-3 seconds from engine start to the collision with the hangar. The airplane pilot operating handbook stated that the brake should be set before engine startup. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Inspection of the airplane’s brake and throttle systems did not reveal any pre-accident anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1935V
- Reported as
- Cessna 182H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18256260
- Built
- 1965
- Airframe hours
- 200
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2024
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 0C0 · Dacy
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 77
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,070 total · 2,500 in this make and model · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 23 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.26 inHg
- Observed at
- KDKB, 30 nm away
- METAR
- KDKB 081915Z AUTO 30010KT 10SM SCT110 M05/M16 A3026 RMK AO2 T10511160
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 6, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.1 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.