# NTSB ERA25LA117: Cessna 172, N94JA, Fort Myers, FL, February 5, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report
- Date: February 5, 2025, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place: Fort Myers, FL
- Coordinates: 26.581695, -81.863568 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.5817&lon=-81.8636&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Taxi-from runway: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- 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
- NTSB case key (mKey): 199691
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA25LA117
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199691/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=199691
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA25LA117

## Probable cause

The student pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a truck while taxiing.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545): Personnel issues › Psychological · Student/instructed pilot (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172R, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md?model=2072401), [All aircraft, 809 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md)
- [Object/animal/substance: ground vehicle](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025): Environmental issues › Physical environment · Decision related to condition (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172R, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025/cases.md?model=2072401), [All aircraft, 132 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Taxi-from runway: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna 172R, 4 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md?model=2072401), [All aircraft, 618 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md)

## Analysis

The student pilot was taxiing to the ramp after her second solo flight. As she entered the ramp area and taxied along the painted centerline, she misjudged the clearance between the airplane’s wingtip and a parked work truck, and the outboard portion of the airplane’s right wing struck the truck. The airplane pivoted right and the propeller impacted the back of the truck before coming to rest. The airplane’s right wing was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N94JA](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N94JA), registered now, S/N 17280632, built 1998 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172 (R)
- Registry model: [Cessna 172R](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172r) (registry code 2072401) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Lycoming I0360 SER A&C](https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-i0360-ser-a-c) (registry code 41511, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 17280632
- Year built: 1998
- Airframe hours: 8000
- Engines: LYCOMING IO-360-L2A 180 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Operator: Yoanna Flight School
- Registered owner: Beaver Aviation South Inc
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: 100 hour, February 4, 2025
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: FMY, Page Fld
- Equipment: ADS-B

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 27; injuries: none; student; medical: class 1, without waivers/limitations; last flight review February 5, 2025; seat: left; restraint: lap only; flight hours: 72.6 total, 64 in this make and model, 2 as pilot in command

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Temperature: 66 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter: 30.18 inHg
- Observed at: FMY
- METAR: METAR KFMY 051253Z 00000KT 10SM SCT050 19/17 A3018 RMK AO2 SLP222      T01890172

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20250205002139A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250205002139A), Feb 5, 2025: Cessna 172R, Fort Myers, FL, Substantial damage. On February 05, 2025 at 0845 EDT, a Cessna 172, [privacy data omitted], collided with a parked truck while taxiing at Page Field, kfmy, Fort Myers, Florida.…

## Other investigations on N94JA (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB DFW06CA004](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DFW06CA004), Oct 12, 2005: Cessna 172 (N94JA), Spring, TX, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing.

## Docket (4 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 22, 2025, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=199691. 96.4 MB in all.

- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (item 1, PDF, 12 pages, 38.8 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18419511&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Filled%20out%206120.1%20Signed_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Pilot's statement (item 2, PDF, 1 page, 5.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18417987&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Pilot%20Statement%20to%20FAA%20Initial_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Investigation photographs (item 3, PDF, 3 pages, 373 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18410642&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=ERA25LA117%20Photo%20Array-Rel.pdf
- Airport surveillance video (item 4, MP4, 51.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18410948&FileExtension=mp4&FileName=2025-02-05_13-31-55_utc_gate-14-new-Rel.mp4

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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