ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 298387
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| Date: | Monday 15 October 2001 |
| Time: | 07:55 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172P |
| Owner/operator: | Marashi Aviation, LLC |
| Registration: | N52685 |
| MSN: | 17274580 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7767 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-D2J |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Knoxville, Tennessee -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Knoxville-McGhee Tyson Airport, TN (TYS/KTYS) |
| Jackson-Evers International Airport, MS (JAN/KJAN) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the pilot, as he added power to commence taxi, he realized that he overlooked removing a chock from his right wheel, and instead of shutting down the engine, decided to set his parking brake, leaving the engine running while he removed the chock. Somehow in sliding out of his seat, he must have bumped the parking brake handle enough to disengage it, because when the chock was removed, the aircraft began movement. The ramp was slightly downhill, and he was unable to catch the aircraft until it collided with two airport terminal concrete columns. The aircraft sustained wing spar damage, and his passenger was uninjured.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inattentive preflight inspection, non-compliance with the prestart checklist, decision to leave the cockpit unattended with engine running, and his inadvertent deactivation of the parking brake as he exited to remove a wheel chock, resulting in non-piloted taxi from the aircraft's starting point and collision with an airport terminal structure.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB MIA02LA009
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 15-Oct-2022 17:24 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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