- Date
- June 13, 1986, 11:26 local (17:26 UTC)
- Place
- Boise, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5208NNavion A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860613027299A
- Case key
- 40427
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Analysis
The pilot elected to land onto a road to pick up a passenger. The pilot failed to maintain adequate clearance from a wire fence to the right of the road and caught the right wing.
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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Clearance - not maintainedCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5208N
- Reported as
- Navion A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- NAV-4-948
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph L. Rice
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 6, 1986 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- U35 · Caldwell, ID
- Destination
- Boise, ID
N5208NRegistered now · Navion NAVION AAirframe modelNavion NAVION AEngine modelContinental O-470 series
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 363 total · 207 in this make and model · 324 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.