- Date
- May 21, 1983, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Taunton, MA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2632GCessna 182B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830521022089A
- Case key
- 35193
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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.
Analysis
The acft collided with a small rock during taxi from landing. As the pilot taxied back to the ramp area along a dirt taxiway he observed three people standing in the way. The pilot taxied onto the grass to avoid the people and while still taxiing the acft struck a rock protruding from the ground about 4 inches. The nose gear yoke broke at the fork andthe acft dropped onto its prop and nose.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2632G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51932
- Airframe hours
- 2,509
- Engine
- Continental O-470L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John A. Carreiro, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 13, 1983 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- TAN
- Destination
- TAN
- Airport
- TAN · Taunton
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 520 total · 468 in this make and model · 232 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.