- Date
- July 9, 1988, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Topeka, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N80208Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880709057729A
- Case key
- 34600
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 - fenceFactor
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
While taxiing in from a personal solo training flight, the student pilot taxied into a chain link fence while attempting to park the acft. The right wing spar sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80208
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266446
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Millionaire, Inc
- Registered owner
- Showcase, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 7, 1988
- Airport
- FOE · Forbes, runway 21, 8,002 × 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 22 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.