LAX98LA302 · Bognuda Livio IV LANCAIR
Bognuda Livio IV LANCAIR and Hawker Siddeley SEA FURY TMK 20 SEA FURY T · Accident: collision between aircraft (not in flight) while standing
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX98LA302
- 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 · Bognuda Livio IV LANCAIR
- Aircraft type
- Bognuda Livio IV LANCAIR
- 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
- N805L
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 4SDTo Sacramento International Airport (SMF), Santa Maria, CA
- 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
- Standing · engine(s) operating
- 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
Aircraft 2 · Hawker Siddeley SEA FURY TMK 20 SEA FURY T
- Aircraft type
- Hawker Siddeley SEA FURY TMK 20
- 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
- N24SF
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 4SDTo Four Corners Regional Airport (FMN), Farmington, NM
- 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
- None
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The Lancair was holding position on the taxiway while awaiting takeoff when it was struck from behind by a Hawker Sea Fury. The Lancair pilot was stopped 500 to 600 feet behind a military C-130 transport aircraft in front of him to avoid thrust turbulence. The pilot of the tail wheel equipped Sea Fury, also taxiing for takeoff, reported that he was unaware of the presence of the smaller aircraft and never saw it on the taxiway ahead until the propeller of his aircraft began striking the empennage of the Lancair. The Sea Fury pilot reported difficulty s-turning while taxiing due to thrust turbulence from other military fighter aircraft on the ramp adjacent to the taxiway he was using.
Probable cause
The failure of the pilot of the overtaking taxiing aircraft to maintain adequate visual surveillance of the taxiway in front of his aircraft to avoid the collision.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX98LA302
- Event ID
- 20001211X11110
- Case number
- LAX98LA302
- 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, damage. 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: 431c1b55090544f285fe939d8f0a6eb71a91ea2ae95454df516c918b8e138872; retrieved 2026-09-22T16:43:34.801Z.