- Date
- October 6, 1989, 06:45 local (11:45 UTC)
- Place
- Jefferson City, MO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8222FPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891006039449I
- Case key
- 34898
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Probable cause
Inadequate visual lookout by the pilot in command. Contributing factors were the dark night & rainy weather.
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 from parking to the active runway in preparation for an IFR flight, the pilot said that he failed to notice a secured, unoccupied aircraft tied down in transient parking, and collided with it. Light conditions were a dark night with light to moderate rainfall. Damage occurred to the wing and propeller of the moving aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8222F
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8016338
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D36, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fritz, Michael A.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- JEF · Jefferson City, MO
- Destination
- MTO · Mattoon, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JEF · Jefferson City, runway 12, 6,000 × 100 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 362 total · 279 in this make and model · 294 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots, gusting 4
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Observed at
- JEF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.