LAX06CA062 · Ryan Navion
Ryan Navion · Accident: on ground/water collision with object while taxiing
From Whiteman Airport (WHP) to Whiteman Airport (WHP)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX06CA062
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Ryan Navion
- Aircraft type
- Ryan NAVION
- 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
- N4403K
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Whiteman Airport (WHP), Los Angeles, CATo Whiteman Airport (WHP), Los Angeles, 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
- Taxi
- 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
- On ground/water collision with object
- 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 › Clearance, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The airplane's left wingtip struck a parked car while taxiing to its hangar after a flight. The accident occurred in the non-movement area of the airport. The car was stopped on the side of a taxi lane as the first two airplanes passed by it. As the third airplane (accident airplane) passed by it, the left wingtip struck the windshield. The accident pilot indicated that he was not able to judge the distance between the airplane's wingtip and the car due to sun glare from the car's windshield. The airport manager indicated that the car was as far to the side as possible and not encroaching on the taxiway, and that there was about 300 feet of space for the airplane to safely pass the car. The driver of the car reported that he was using a taxi lane commonly used for vehicle traffic and his car was stopped while all three airplanes were taxiing. The first two passed with no problems, and then the third airplane's wingtip struck his windshield.
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance from a parked vehicle.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX06CA062
- Event ID
- 20060120X00107
- Case number
- LAX06CA062
- 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, coordinates. 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: db369c4b81b67896491821358fcf9942fc10ab1480a1ef69def44c9681643b11; retrieved 2026-09-22T05:12:29.569Z.