- Date
- October 28, 2025, 09:03 local (13:03 UTC)
- Place
- Boca Raton, FL · Runup Pad Rwy 5 @ BCT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Defining events
- Taxi: Ground collisionTaxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 9, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20251028018222A
- Case key
- 201933
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 low-wing pilot’s inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in a collision with another airplane while taxiing.
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.
N202RD · Akrotech Giles G-202
N825KS · Cessna 172R
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.
N202RD · Akrotech Giles G-202
N825KS · Cessna 172R
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped low-wing airplane received a taxi clearance from the tower air traffic controller for a planned departure and began taxing toward the assigned runway. About 3 minutes later, the student pilot of the high-wing airplane requested and received a takeoff clearance while located stationary at the edge of the runup area. The student pilot then advised his flight instructor that the low-wing airplane was approaching from the left, heading toward their airplane. To avoid a collision, the flight instructor took control of the high-wing airplane and advanced the throttle in an attempt to taxi out of the path of the low-wing airplane. The low-wing airplane then impacted the high-wing airplane, resulting in substantial damage to the propeller of the low-wing airplane and to the left wing of the high-wing airplane. The pilot of the low-wing airplane reported that he saw other airplanes in the runup area but did not see the accident high-wing airplane until he was “underneath” its wing. The pilots of both airplanes reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplanes that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft · 2
- Registration
- N202RD
- Reported as
- Akrotech Giles G-202
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- G2020021
- Built
- 1997
- Airframe hours
- 1,509
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- High Alpha Aero LLC
- Registered owner
- High Alpha Aero LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · June 30, 2025
- Departed
- BCT · Boca Raton, FL
- Airport
- BCT · Boca Raton, runway 05, 6,276 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- N825KS
- Reported as
- Cessna 172R (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280791
- Built
- 1999
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lynn University
- Registered owner
- Planelease LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 27, 2025
- Departed
- BCT · Boca Raton, FL
- Airport
- KBCT · Boca Raton Airport, runway 5, 6,276 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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 · 3
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N202RD
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 26, 2024
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 3,880 total · 433 in this make and model · 3,587 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 16.5 in the last 30 days · 0.8 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Flight instructor, aircraft N825KS
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 18, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 435 in this make and model · 70 in the last 90 days
- Role
- Student pilot, aircraft N825KS
- Age
- 19
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 89 total · 59 in this make and model · 22 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 2984.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BCT
- METAR
- METAR KBCT 281353Z 35006KT 10SM CLR 30/21 A2984
Docket · 7
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 49.2 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.