- Date
- September 8, 2001, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N20675Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20010908025409A
- Case key
- 53485
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to maintain an adequate visual lookout during taxi. A fence was a 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 pilot submitted a written report to the NTSB, and reported that shortly after landing, he was cleared to taxi the airplane to the northeast parking area via taxiway Alpha. He reported that while traveling northbound on the taxiway he encountered an airplane that was traveling southbound on the same taxiway. In an effort to avoid the oncoming (southbound) airplane, he maneuvered the airplane to the easterly edge of the taxiway and inadvertently collided with the temporary construction fence.
Factual narrative
On September 8, 2001, about 1500 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N20675, sustained substantial damage after taxiing into a temporary construction fence at Boeing Field/ King County International Airport, Seattle, Washington. The airplane is registered to the pilot, and was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) personal flight under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The private pilot, the sole occupant of the airplane, was not injured. Visual meteorological provisions prevailed.
The pilot submitted a written report to the NTSB dated September 27, and reported that shortly after landing, he was cleared to taxi the airplane to the northeast parking area via taxiway Alpha. He reported that while traveling northbound on the taxiway he encountered an airplane that was traveling southbound on the same taxiway. In an effort to avoid the oncoming (southbound) airplane, he maneuvered the airplane to the easterly edge of the taxiway and inadvertently collided with the temporary construction fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20675
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261482
- Airframe hours
- 2,467
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John B. Fisher
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 7, 2001 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- S21 · Sunriver, OR
- Destination
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- BFI · Boeing Field/King County Intl, runway 31, 10,001 × 200 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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- January 17, 2000
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 190 total · 190 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KBFI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.