MIA95LA098 · Piper PA-23-250
Piper PA-23-250 and Globe GC-1B · Accident: collision between aircraft (not in flight) while taxiing
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA95LA098
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Aircraft 1 · Piper PA-23-250
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N346PB
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Naples Municipal Airport (APF), Naples, FLTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Taxi · from runway
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Collision between aircraft (not in flight)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Aircraft 2 · Globe GC-1B
- Aircraft type
- Globe GC-1
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N78055
- Operator
- Sisson, Perry J. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Page Field (FMY), FORT MYERS, FL
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Taxi · to runway
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Collision between aircraft (not in flight)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Identification of aircraft visually, not obtained
- Pilot in command › Remedial action, delayed
- Pilot of other aircraft › Identification of aircraft visually, not obtained
- Pilot of other aircraft › Remedial action, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
A PIPER PA-23 PILOT LANDED ON RUNWAY 4 AT AN UNCONTROLLED AIRPORT AND EXITED NORTHBOUND ONTO A TAXIWAY THAT LED TO THE RAMP. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, A GLOBE GC-1B (SWIFT) WAS DEPARTING THE RAMP AND PROCEEDING SOUTHBOUND ON THE SAME TAXIWAY TOWARD THE RUNWAY. ALTHOUGH, THE TAXIWAY WAS ORIENTED GENERALLY NORTH-SOUTH, IT ANGLED TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST, WHERE IT CROSSED A CLOSED, EAST-WEST RUNWAY. THE PIPER PILOT SAID HE OBSERVED THE SWIFT TAXIING SOUTHBOUND ON THE TAXIWAY ABOUT 900 FEET NORTH OF THE CLOSED RUNWAY. THE TAXIWAY WAS TOO NARROW TO ACCOMODATE BOTH AIRPLANES. THE PIPER PILOT ASSUMED THE SWIFT PILOT WOULD YIELD AT THE CLOSED RUNWAY, SO HE (THE PIPER PILOT) CONTINUED NORTHBOUND (NORTH-NORTHEAST). THE SWIFT WAS EQUIPPED WITH A TAILWHEEL. THE SWIFT PILOT SAID HE WAS USING S-TURNS (TO SEE FORWARD). THE SWIFT PILOT DID NOT YIELD AT THE CLOSED RUNWAY, BUT CONTINUED SOUTHBOUND (SOUTH-SOUTEAST). BY THE TIME THE PIPER PILOT REALIZED THAT THE SWIFT HAD NOT STOPPED, THE TWO AIRPLANES WERE CONVERGING. THE PIPER PILOT TOOK EVASIVE ACTION BY TURNING TO THE RIGHT; HOWEVER, THE LEFT WINGTIP OF EACH AIRPLANE COLLIDED. THE SWIFT PILOT SAID HE DID NOT SEE THE PIPER PA-23 UNTIL MOMENTS BEFORE THE COLLISION. THE COLLISION OCCURRED ABOUT 450 FEET SOUTH OF THE CLOSED RUNWAY.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE GLOBE GC-1B (SWIFT) PILOT TO SEE THE PIPER PA-23 IN TIME TO AVOID A COLLISION, AND THE PIPER PA-23 PILOT'S DELAY IN INITIATING REMEDIAL ACTION TO AVOID THE COLLISION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA95LA098
- Event ID
- 20001207X03339
- Case number
- MIA95LA098
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b984cc8048c129ed367bcf5769e31e7765753c00a419f9c0fd55ec75c06b7ecb; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:05:55.620Z.