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WPR19TA031 · Piper PA28 181

5 Nov 2018 · Chandler, AZ, United States

AeroGuard Flight Training Center Piper PA28 181 and AeroGuard Flight Training Center Piper PA28 181 · Accident: ground collision while standing

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Event

NTSB case
WPR19TA031
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

Aircraft 1 · Piper PA28 181

Aircraft type
Piper PA28
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
N9299B
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Chandler Municipal Airport (CHD), Chandler, AZTo Chandler Municipal Airport (CHD), Chandler, AZ
Aircraft age
About 20 years (built 1998)
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
Defining eventThe 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
Ground collision
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 · Piper PA28 181

Aircraft type
Piper PA28
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
N419PA
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Ryan Field (RYN), Tucson, AZTo Ryan Field (RYN), Tucson, AZ
Aircraft age
About 18 years (built 2000)
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
Defining eventThe 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
Ground collision
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Minor

Cause areas

  • Personnel issues › Psychological

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

On November 5, 2018, about 1019 mountain standard time, a Piper PA28-181, N419PA, and a Piper PA28-181, N9299B, collided on the ground at Chandler Municipal Airport (CHD), Chandler, Arizona. The student pilot in N419PA, and the student pilot and airline transport pilot onboard N9299B were not injured. Both airplanes were operated by AeroGuard Flight Training Center under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.

According to the operator, the student pilot had landed and was taxiing back to the runway for takeoff. The pilot of the second airplane was undergoing a practical test and his airplane was stationary as he completed pre-takeoff checks in the run-up area. The student arrived at the run-up area, completed his pre-takeoff checks, and subsequently attempted to taxi around the left side of the second airplane, during which his right wing impacted the trailing edge of the second airplane’s left wing.

Examination of both airplanes by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, revealed that N9299B sustained substantial damage to the left aileron, while N419PA sustained minor damage to the right wing.

Probable cause

The student pilot’s failure to maintain a safe distance from the other airplane while taxiing, resulting in a ground collision.

Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record WPR19TA031
Event ID
20181106X93017
Case number
WPR19TA031
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: e131a90bd413f9fc0b78f4022efea7498c71e92c2bc4eeb720bb7cbfbef953f2; retrieved 2026-09-13T18:31:13.951Z.