- Date
- October 19, 1987, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N60481Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871019060129A
- Case key
- 14004
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
While taxiing back to the parking ramp, after a short instructional flight, the student and flight instructor were looking ahead into the parking area for a vacant parking place. While they were searching for a place to park, the right wing of the aircraft struck a parked fuel truck, causing the front of the aircraft to swing around and hit the fuel truck with the propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60481
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070343
- Airframe hours
- 5,018
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aero Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- SPI · Springfield, IL
- Airport
- SPI · Capital, runway 30, 5,298 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 775 total · 674 in this make and model · 634 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SPI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.