- Date
- December 11, 2025, 10:25 local (15:25 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Pierce, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N620ACPiper PA-28-181
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 29, 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
- 20251211019179A
- Case key
- 202152
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 pilot’s inadequate visual lookout while taxing, which resulted in the airplane striking a light pole.
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
The pilot reported that during the flight his seat had lowered and resulted in reduced forward visibility. After landing the pilot taxied back to the ramp and attempted to locate the designated parking spot for the airplane. While attempting to locate the parking spot, airplane’s left wing struck a light pole, which substantially damaged it. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N620AC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2843755
- Built
- 2014
- Airframe hours
- 8,252.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ari Ben Aviator Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 14, 2025 · 84.1 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- FPR · Treasure Coast Intl
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 7, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,027.3 total · 768.8 in this make and model · 1,945.4 as pilot in command · 158.8 in the last 90 days · 38.7 in the last 30 days · 5.9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 9 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- FPR, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KFPR 111753Z 30009G17KT 10SM CLR 22/12 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP164 T02170122 10222 20083 58018
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 29, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.6 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.