- Date
- July 7, 1982, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Healdsburg, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6702YBeech 77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820707026049A
- Case key
- 70996
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - aircraft parked/standing
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Diverted attentionCause
Analysis
While taxiing past parked planes on the right, the student was distracted by a plane being towed out of a hangar on the left. The propeller of the BE-77 heavily damaged 8 ft of the right wing of a parked PA-28, N8118S.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6702Y
- Reported as
- Beech 77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA43
- Airframe hours
- 743
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Sarber
- Registered owner
- Richard Sarber
- Departed
- O31 · Healdsburg, CA
- Destination
- O31 · Healdsburg, CA
- Airport
- O31 · Healdsburg Municipal
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.