- Date
- May 1, 2019, 20:18 local (May 2, 2019, 04:18 UTC)
- Place
- Bethel, AK
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N524AVGippsland GA8
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 3, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190501003709A
- Case key
- 99361
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 failure to maintain adequate clearance from a shipping container 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.
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, while taxiing to the tie-down area after landing, during a "tight" right turn, the airplane's left wingtip struck a shipping container. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left-wing spar. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that, after landing, while taxiing to the tie-down area, during a "tight" right turn, the airplane's left-wing tip struck a shipping container. The Federal Aviation Administration inspector reported that the airplane sustained substantial damage to the left-wing spar. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N524AV
- Reported as
- Gippsland GA8 (Undesignat)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- GA8-15-214
- Built
- 2015
- Airframe hours
- 4,437
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Global Air Concepts Llc
- Registered owner
- Global Air Concepts Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · April 15, 2019
- Departed
- A61 · Tuntutuliak, AK
- Destination
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- BET · Bethel
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather
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
- 24
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 27, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 783 total · 129 in this make and model · 733 as pilot in command · 123 in the last 90 days · 63 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- PABE
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.2 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.