- Date
- July 28, 2024, 09:50 local (13:50 UTC)
- Place
- Immokalee, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Defining events
- Taxi: Ground collisionTaxi: 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
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA reports
- 20240728021662A20240728014942A
- Case key
- 194837
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 student pilot’s (of the high wing airplane) inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in a ground collision with another airplane while taxiing.
Findings · 4
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.
N734BH · Cessna 172N
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.
N734BH · Cessna 172N
N8580E · Piper PA-28-161
Analysis
The pilot of the low-wing airplane and the student pilot of the high-wing airplane both reported stopping for a short break while on solo, instructional, cross-country flights. After engine start, the pilot of the low-wing airplane reported checking for traffic in all directions before entering the taxiway and beginning his taxi toward the departing runway. The student pilot of the high-wing airplane reported checking for traffic to the right and announcing his taxi intentions over the common traffic advisory frequency, but did not look to his left before entering the taxiway. The pilot of the low-wing airplane could not recall if he heard the advisory statement nor if he made one of his own. The student pilot of the high-wing airplane did not see the low-wing airplane already established on the taxiway and coming from the left. As the student pilot of the high-wing airplane entered the taxiway the two airplanes collided. The low-wing airplane’s right wing impacted the high-wing airplane resulting in substantial damage to the low-wing and minor damage to the high-wing airplane. The pilot of each airplane reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with either airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft · 2
- Registration
- N734BH
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17268722
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 16,026.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wayman Aviation Flight School
- Registered owner
- My Way Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 15, 2024 · 57 hours before
- Destination
- SEF · Sebring, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- IMM · IMMOKALEE Regional
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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.
- Registration
- N8580E
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2842414
- Built
- 2015
- Airframe hours
- 4,433.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skyborne Airline Academy Inc
- Registered owner
- Skyborne Airline Academy Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · July 26, 2024 · 13.3 hours before
- Destination
- VRB · Vero Beach, FL
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Student pilot, aircraft N734BH
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 74.8 total · 74.8 in this make and model · 8.1 as pilot in command · 53.8 in the last 90 days · 20.7 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N8580E
- Age
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 8, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 72 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- RSW, 20 nm away
- METAR
- KRSW 281353Z 15005KT 10SM CLR 29/25 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP189 T02940250
Docket · 7
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 4, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 2
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.