- Date
- October 6, 2000, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lincoln Park, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8895MBeech BE-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 8, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001006039019A
- Case key
- 50450
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain directional control while taxiing.
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 pilot stated that he was teaching his girlfriend to taxi their new airplane. The pilot became distracted by a wasp in the cockpit. While his attention was diverted, the airplane veered to the right, and struck a parked airplane.
Factual narrative
On October 6, 2000, about 1630 Eastern Daylight Time, a Beech BE-23, N8895M, was substantially damaged while taxiing at Lincoln Park Airport (N07), Lincoln Park, New Jersey. The certificated commercial pilot and passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local personal flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The pilot stated that he had recently bought the airplane. The pilot was not a certified flight instructor, but he was teaching his girlfriend to taxi. While taxiing, the pilot was distracted by a wasp in the cockpit. While his attention was diverted, the airplane veered off to the right side of the taxiway, and struck a parked airplane. The right wing of his airplane sustained substantial damage, and the propeller and windscreen of the parked airplane was damaged. The pilot added that the parked airplane was much closer to the taxiway than all other parked airplanes at N07.
According to a Lincoln Park Police Officer, the pilot reported that he had just landed, and was taxiing toward the parking area. He was distracted by a wasp and struck the parked airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8895M
- Reported as
- Beech BE-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-647
- Airframe hours
- 2,200
- Engine
- Continental IO-360, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Craig A. Squillante
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1999
- Departed
- N07
- Airport
- N07 · Lincoln Park Airport
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDW, 180 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.