- Date
- December 11, 1989, 08:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bullhead City, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8247QCessna 414
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891211058579A
- Case key
- 26730
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain sufficient clearance between his aircraft and ground objects during a taxi to the ramp area.
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 misjudged the clearance between his aircraft and a fence during a taxi to a ramp area after landing at Bullhead City, Arizona. After colliding with the fence, the aircraft collided with a parked vehicle. Witnesses stated the aircraft was taxiing too fast for the area. There were no mechanical problems found with the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8247Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 414
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Sky Traders Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- LIT · Little Rock, AK
- Destination
- P06
- Airport
- P06 · Bullhead City, runway 17, 4,000 × 60 ft, asphalt
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °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 N8247Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.