Cessna 172 N5329L

Summary

On 30 July 2008 at about 19:50 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N5329L, operated by Flight School Hawaii, Inc., was involved in an accident near Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

30 July 2008 at 19:50

Classification

Accident

Location

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Nearest airport

Honolulu International (PHNL)

Coordinates

21.3186, -157.9225

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N5329L

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Flight School Hawaii, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Honolulu → Honolulu

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX08LA283

Nobody was injured.

The flight's encounter with the jet wash from a parked commercial airplane while taxiing for takeoff.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The certified flight instructor (CFI) and her student were taxiing southwest on taxiway Charlie when ground control told them to switch to the tower frequency and monitor. As they approached the intersection of Charlie and Delta taxiways, the airplane started to tip over, and through the left window they could feel the warm air of jet wash coming from a parked MD-11 airplane. The jet wash lifted the airplane up and dropped it down, the propeller struck the taxiway, and then the airplane spun around to the right pivoting on the right wing tip. The CFI shut the engine down and both her and the student egressed the airplane. The MD-11's cargo was live animals and the number 2 (tail) engine was being operated to provide power to cool the airplane. There was no requirement at the time for parked airplanes to notify ground control when starting an engine.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.