- Date
- September 8, 2009, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fallon, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N272DBeech S35
- Defining event
- Taxi-to runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 19, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Adminstration
- FAA report
- 20090908018289A
- Case key
- 74699
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from an obstacle during taxi.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
While taxiing the airplane from the hangar to the ramp area, the pilot became distracted and did not notice a turn in the taxiway. The airplane subsequently departed the taxiway and collided with a fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing spar during the accident sequence. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Factual narrative
While taxiing the airplane from the hangar to the ramp area, the pilot became distracted and did not notice a turn in the taxiway. The airplane subsequently departed the taxiway and collided with a fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing spar during the accident sequence. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N272D
- Reported as
- Beech S35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-7463
- Airframe hours
- 6,150
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-550-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 10, 2009
- Departed
- FLX · Fallon, NV
- Destination
- FLX · Fallon, NV
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- FLX · Fallon Municipal Airport
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 22, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,300 total · 5,500 in this make and model · 6,300 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 49 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- NFL, 5 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 25, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 419 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N272D · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.