- Date
- February 9, 2025, 10:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, CA · On airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N92467Cessna 182N
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) start-up: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250209002999A
- Case key
- 199686
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper use of throttle and brakes during engine start that resulted in a loss of control and impact with a hangar.
Findings · 3
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
The pilot of the airplane reported that, following a preflight inspection, he advanced the throttle to full to prime the engine and neglected to retard the throttle prior to engine start. Subsequently, the engine started with a full throttle power setting and began to taxi forward. While attempting to apply brakes and retard the throttle to idle, the airplane veered left and impacted a hangar. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92467
- Reported as
- Cessna 182N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18260219
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 5,571.1
- Engine
- Continental Motor O-470-R60B, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 2024 · 1 hours before
- Destination
- 1O3 · Lodi, CA
- Airport
- AUN · Auburn Muni
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Handheld GPS, Stall warning system
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 15, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 713 total · 634 in this make and model · 666 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KAUN
- METAR
- KAUN 091855Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 09/M00 A3022 RMK A01
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 22, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 MB 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.