- Date
- March 31, 1989, 09:20 local (14:20 UTC)
- Place
- Stuart, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N53549Boeing E75N1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890331005099A
- Case key
- 32416
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Probable cause
Inadequate visual lookout by both the pilot of the Boeing E75N1 and the person running up the OV-1 (their failure to see each other and avoid the occurrence).
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 plt stated that he had just landed on runway 20 & was cleared to taxi on the parallel taxiway, next to runway 15. As he was taxiing, the aircraft encountered propeller blast from an OV-1, engine run-up on the right side of the taxi- way. Subsequently, the aircraft was blown sideways off the taxiway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53549
- Reported as
- Boeing E75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-8196
- Airframe hours
- 1,157
- Engine
- Continental W-670-6N, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gene A. Decarlo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 14, 1988 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- FPR · Ft Pierce, FL
- Airport
- SVA · Witham Field, runway 20, 5,000 × 200 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
- Age
- 58
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 18,020 total · 100 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB, 30 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.