- Date
- August 27, 1989, 13:28 local (18:28 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N63884Consolidated-Vultee BT-13A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 10, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890827032209A
- Case key
- 34857
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Probable cause
Inadequate control tower service provided by tower personnel, and inadequate remedial action by the vehicle driver. The pilot's lack of visual lookout was considered to be a contributing factor.
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 was giving 'rides' to the owner's family. He stopped in a northerly drctn at/near the rgt side of the twy to change passengers (pax). After the pax change, he contacted gnd ctl & obtained clnc to taxi for another takeoff. He had limited fwd visibility in the tailwheel equipped acft. To taxi, he elected to angle the acft to the left onto the twy, then turn rgt to s-turn & clr himself dwn the twy. As he bgn taxiing, 2 camouflaged tugs with ammo trailers were coming down the twy fm the opposite drctn. As the acft angled onto the twy, the relative psn of the vehicles remained off the nose of the acft & the plt did not see them. The 1st vehicle driver stopped & tried to contact gnd ctl. He then tried totake evasive actn, but was unsuccessful. Subsequently, the acft's left wing hit the 1st vehicle & the prop hit the ammo trailer. The acdnt occurred on a joint-use military/civilian arpt. The plt & vehicle drivers were under jurisdiction of gnd ctl & in view of the ctl twr. The operg procedures had military & civilian traffic on different freqs.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63884
- Reported as
- Consolidated-Vultee BT-13A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1833
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN3, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J.L. Mccullough
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- GVW
- Airport
- GVW · Richards Gebaur, runway 18, 9,000 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 65
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 14,205 total · 608 in this make and model · 13,895 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- GVW, 1 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.