- Date
- April 7, 2014, 18:38 local (22:38 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2630BCessna 172R
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Windshear or thunderstorm
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- FAA report
- 20140407004269A
- Case key
- 89020
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Probable cause
The inadvertent encounter with a microburst during taxi from landing that resulted in the aircraft being turned over inverted and receiving substantial damage.
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
According to the flight instructor, he was taxing back to the ramp after landing when he was told to hold short on the taxiway due to a micro burst alert. As the airplane was coming to a stop, the winds flipped the airplane over inverted, and it resulted in substantial damage to both wings and the vertical stabilizer. According the ground controller, the surface winds were sustained at 48 knots with gusts as high as 64 knots. The flight instructor reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
According to the flight instructor, he was taxing back to the ramp after landing when he was told to hold short on the taxiway due to a micro burst alert. As the airplane was coming to a stop, the winds flipped the airplane over inverted, and it resulted in substantial damage to both wings and the vertical stabilizer. According the ground controller, the surface winds were sustained at 48 knots with gusts as high as 64 knots. The flight instructor reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2630B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280665
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 10,319
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Phoenix East Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Bravo Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 4, 2014
- Departed
- DAB · Daytona Beach, FL
- Destination
- DAB · Daytona Beach, FL
- Airport
- DAB · Daytona Beach International
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 13, 2014
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 634 total · 305 in this make and model · 369 as pilot in command · 182 in the last 90 days · 72 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 14, 2014
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 13,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB
Docket · 7
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 25, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.5 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.
Other investigations on N2630B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.