- Date
- March 11, 1990, 11:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Watsonville, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N759KMCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900311007529A
- Case key
- 26726
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout.
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
While taxiing for takeoff the commercial pilot inadvertently proceeded into a six-inch deep, two foot by two foot wide, pot hole. The impact buckled the firewall. The pilot acknowledged that prior to the accident he had been aware of the pot hole's existence and misjudged the airplane's distance from it.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N759KM
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266055
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- United Flight
- Destination
- WVI
- Airport
- WVI · Watsonville Muni.
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 750 total · 600 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N759KM · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.