- Date
- August 3, 2016, 21:24 local (Aug 4, 2016, 04:24 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4801DCessna 172
- Defining event
- Taxi: Airport occurrence
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report September 12, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160803013119A
- Case key
- 93764
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the building door, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing.
Findings · 3
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
After a local flight, the pilot reported that while taxing in the non-movement area at night he made a left turn and impacted a building door with the left wing. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
After a local flight, the pilot reported that while taxing in the non-movement area at night he made a left turn and impacted a building door with the left wing. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4801D
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (N)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272362
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 10,645.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 lbs thrust, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 2016
- Departed
- RNT · Renton, WA
- Destination
- PAE · Everett, WA
- Airport
- PAE · Snohomish County (Paine Fld)
- Equipment
- None
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 22, 2016
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 415 total · 350 in this make and model · 415 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 3.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Observed at
- KPAE
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.
Other investigations on N4801D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.