- Date
- October 13, 1982, 14:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N5697PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821013052699A
- Case key
- 71102
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot had taxied onto taxiway lima and had stopped short of runway 13R/31L to hold for landing traffic. At about the same time, an airport employee was proceeding down the runway from northwest to southeast to check the runway lights. The ground controller advised the vehicle driver of the landing traffic on a 3-mile final approach. The driver turned left off of the runway and onto taxiway lima. The airport vehicle collided with the aircraft that was holding on the taxiway. The driver of the vehicle stated that he did not see or know of the aircraft until the moment of impact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5697P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-770
- Airframe hours
- 2,506
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1A, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Millard A. Lano
- Registered owner
- Millard A. Lano
- Departed
- HUB · Houston, TX
- Destination
- CXO · Conroe, TX
- Airport
- HUB · Hobby Field, runway 31L, 5,150 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 645 total · 610 in this make and model · 558 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 167 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOU, 10 nm away
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 N5697P · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.