- Date
- February 19, 1993, 21:10 local (Feb 20, 1993, 02:10 UTC)
- Place
- Punta Gorda, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5394MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930219004359A
- Case key
- 33231
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain a visual lookout while taxiing into the parking area, resulting in an on-ground collision with a light pole.
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 private pilot was taxiing for parking on the ramp at night with a lineman as a ground guide. The pilot observed a light pole to his left, but continued taxiing the airplane forward with the lineman located to his right. The left wing of the airplane collided with the light pole.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5394M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284578
- Airframe hours
- 4,750
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Comair Aviation Academy, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Comair Aviation Academy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 1993 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- SFB · Sanford, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PGD · Charlotte County
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 83 total · 83 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N5394M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.