- Date
- June 17, 1990, 16:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Canyon, AZ
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N73204Cessna T207A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900617025579A
- Case key
- 26865
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of clearance from a parked aircraft while taxiing.
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 - inaccurateCause
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The operator reported the aircraft was taxiing out for departure from a confined parking spot between two parked company aircraft. While turning onto the taxiway, the tail of the aircraft struck the wing tip of a parked Cessna 402.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73204
- Reported as
- Cessna T207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700570
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Nevada Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- GCN
- Destination
- LAS · Las Vegas, NV
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- GCN · Grand Canyon
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,568 total · 106 in this make and model · 1,387 as pilot in command · 106 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- 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.