- Date
- September 28, 1986, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N40070Piper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31711
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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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/standingFactor
Visual lookout - improperCause
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
During taxi after landing the pilot taxied on a parallel roadway that had aircraft parked on it. The left wing of the aircraft struck two parked aircraft causing minor damage to them. The taxiing aircraft sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40070
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7816012
- Airframe hours
- 2,400
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Judy A. Lester
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PIE · Clearwater, FL
- Airport
- CDK · George T. Lewis, runway 5, 2,355 × 100 ft, asphalt
N40070Registered now · Piper PA-28-161Airframe modelPiper PA-28-161Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 256 total · 37 in this make and model · 181 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 31 nm away