- Date
- January 26, 1989, 20:40 local (Jan 27, 1989, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N2860WBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890126001509A
- Case key
- 32389
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Probable cause
Failure of the driver of the automobile to maintain an adequate visual lookout and to yield the right of way to the aircraft.
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 to takeoff from the avtn community arpt during a dark night with the landing, beacon, strobe, & navigation lights on, the plt observed a vehicle approaching head-on. He stopped the acft & waited for the vehicle to pull off the taxiway but the car continued & drove under the left wing damaging it & the roof & windshield of the automobile. The acft spun to the left & came to rest. The automobile continued fwd then came to rest behind the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2860W
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-447
- Airframe hours
- 2,421
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kay W. Schuttler
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 1988 · 35 hours before
- Destination
- DAB · Daytona Beach, FL
- Airport
- 44J · Spruce Creek
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 140° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 7 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.