- Date
- July 26, 1994, 08:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8026Pitts S-2B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 26, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940726019379A
- Case key
- 41987
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Probable cause
The inadequate visual lookout by the instructor and dual student. Factors include sunglare and the tug left on the taxiway.
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 after landing the aircraft hit a tug that had been left on the taxiway after it ran out of gas. The pilot also stated that the rising sun was in his eyes.
Factual narrative
On July 26, 1994 at 0815 mountain daylight time, a Pitts S-2B, N8026, collided with a tug while taxiing at Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was substantially damaged but neither the instructor nor the student pilot was injured. The flight had departed earlier that morning at about 0725 hours from Salt Lake City on a local instructional flight.
According to the instructor pilot, during taxi from landing the sun was in their eyes. They hit a tug that was left on the taxiway after it had run out of gas.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8026
- Reported as
- Pitts S-2B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-540, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- David Dingman
- Registered owner
- David Dingman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Airport
- SLC · Salt Lake City Internat
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
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 2,651 total · 48 in this make and model · 2,620 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.