- Date
- September 4, 2008, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wadsworth, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18538Cessna 150L
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway incursion veh/AC/person
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 69037
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The lack of radio communication with the airplane and the inadequate visual lookout by the driver of the vehicle.
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 student pilot and certified flight instructor were returning from a local instructional flight when a truck entered the active runway during landing. The wing of the airplane impacted the truck when the flight instructor attempted a go-around to avoid hitting the truck. The student pilot, flight instructor, and driver of the truck were uninjured. The truck driver did not have an available radio to receive and provide traffic advisories.
Factual narrative
The student pilot and certified flight instructor were returning from a local instructional flight when a truck entered the active runway during landing. The wing of the airplane impacted the truck when the flight instructor attempted a go-around to avoid hitting the truck. The student pilot, flight instructor, and driver of the truck were uninjured. The truck driver did not have an available radio to receive and provide traffic advisories.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18538
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073926
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skypark Inc
- Registered owner
- Skypark Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 15G · Wadsworth, OH
- Destination
- 15G · Wadsworth, OH
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 15G · Weltzien Skypark Airport, runway 21
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 3,150 total · 650 in this make and model
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 16
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8 total · 8 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day