Crazy taxiing accident

I will say that when I restarted flying, it was at a totally unfamiliar airport, and I may have, just once, went the wrong way. But looking at a map of that airport, I have no clue what the guy was doing.
Sounds more like a story of a drunk stealing a plane.
Aircraft is now available for salvage, if you need some bits. It had a pair of G5s, and other stuff.
 
He was instructed to follow another plane and then went off on his own? Something going on in his brain, maybe? No way that anyone who is cognitively fit to fly both disregards an ATC instruction to that extent, and “forgets he has wings” and tries to taxi through a gate.
 
asicer said:
I'm not sure of the NSTB's tone here.
(from the docket)
OPERATOR/OWNER SAFETY RECOMMENDATION
Be aware than an aircraft has wings and cannot fit through a vehicle gate

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" resulted in a collision with fence poles on either side of a gate which was not intended for airplanes"

The actual write up is funny as it is. No fatalities or injuries, so I hope the NTSB guy who wrote this up at least got a good laugh.

Also ...... could this student have been pulled over the the Kansas State Police? Was this Cessna equipped with the appropriate turn signals and tail lights to make it street legal? I bet the rear license plate wasn't visible.
 
WDD said:
Also ...... could this student have been pulled over the the Kansas State Police? Was this Cessna equipped with the appropriate turn signals and tail lights to make it street legal? I bet the rear license plate wasn't visible.
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There is a town not far from here where you can (and many do) land and taxi down a road to a hotel with a restaurant. If you fail to stop at the stop sign, you'll be ticketed.


So I'm told.
 
DaleB said:
There is a town not far from here where you can (and many do) land and taxi down a road to a hotel with a restaurant. If you fail to stop at the stop sign, you'll be ticketed.


So I'm told.
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True, it's in Beaumont, Kansas.
 
Is there a way to permaban someone from flying? I dont think this guy should be allowed to operate a car, golf cart, electric scooter or a wheelchair let alone an airplane. I think one important reminder that you might consider the presence of wings would be steering with your feet, let alone the noisy whirling bits in front of you.
 
Whereas I got the farmer whose field I crash landed in, to cut the poles on the gate so I could get the 152 through it and back onto the field.

Just gotta think a tiny bit further ahead. A little more training and throw him back in the saddle!
 
moparrob66 said:
Is there a way to permaban someone from flying? I dont think this guy should be allowed to operate a car, golf cart, electric scooter or a wheelchair let alone an airplane. I think one important reminder that you might consider the presence of wings would be steering with your feet, let alone the noisy whirling bits in front of you.
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This may well be a case where his medical should be withdrawn and cognitive testing is needed.
 
I had a kid today who failed instruction after instruction. Domestic, plain as toast local High School senior.
He...brought the pee out of the bathroom despite explicit instructions heard by his dad 70 seconds earlier to leave it and lock it in the bathroom.
He repeatedly got the instruction on the barrett prism wrong.
He read the brief instructions for the Waggoner color vision test and clearly didn't understand it; it was shut down and re-do.
He pulled everything out of his pockets when i said I want to weight you with shoes, wallet keys and phone aboard.

Dad was one continuous facepalm.
I wonder if it was this guy....
 
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White coat syndrome? Grasping at straws here….
 
moparrob66 said:
Is there a way to permaban someone from flying?
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ateamer said:
This may well be a case where his medical should be withdrawn and cognitive testing is needed.
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Personally, I'm willing to cut the guy a break[*]. However, I'd keep a real close eye on him and yank his ticket at the first sign of trouble.

*EDIT: pending a thorough eval.
 
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100% would have believed that photo was doctored if not for the wheel chocks.
 
It’s been a few minutes since I’ve been to that airport. Report says 17 hr student?

I looked up the N# and it seems like it’s based there. So this probably wasn’t a student doing towered airport operations for the first time. When I hear them on the radio they usually just want to get it over with and leave asap, and not get taxi to parking instructions.

I really wonder what the other pilot was thinking when he heard the instruction to follow his airplane and then watched the other guy go xc at 0’ AGL.
 
ionel said:
Am I really the only one thinking the FBO is at fault for leaving the gate open?
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He was told to follow the plane in front of him. That plane stayed on the taxiway; it didn’t turn toward the gate. He had to make a 90 degree turn off of his ATC-instructed route and taxi between hangars to get to the gate. Why would the FBO be liable for the student disobeying an ATC instruction (91.123(b))?
 
ateamer said:
He was told to follow the plane in front of him. That plane stayed on the taxiway; it didn’t turn toward the gate. He had to make a 90 degree turn off of his ATC-instructed route and taxi between hangars to get to the gate. Why would the FBO be liable for the student disobeying an ATC instruction (91.123(b))?
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Shirely you realize I am joking.
 
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