- Date
- June 25, 1992, 09:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ocean City, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N88522Piper J-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920625022259A
- Case key
- 37184
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual look out for objects while taxing.
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
During taxi to a runway, the pilot began to make 's' turns across the ramp. The airplane drifted right. The right wing strut of the J-3 contacted the left wing tip of a parked PA-30 that the pilot did not see. The J-3 then pivoted right which allowed the propeller to strike the inside of the PA-30 propeller and engine cowling.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88522
- Reported as
- Piper J-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16147
- Airframe hours
- 3,665
- Engine
- Continental A-85-8, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jehu D. Quillin
- Registered owner
- Jehu D. Quillin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1992 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- N80
- Airport
- N80 · Ocean City Muni
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,444 total · 350 in this make and model · 1,084 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBY, 18 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.