ERA23LA171 · Cessna 180
Cessna 180 · Accident: ground collision while taxiing
From Warren County Airport/John Lane Field (I68) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA23LA171
- 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
Cessna 180
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 180
- 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
- N7772B
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Warren County Airport/John Lane Field (I68), Lebanon, OHTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 67 years (built 1956)
- 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
- 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
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Psychological
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Shortly after landing, while taxing to get fuel, the pilot was being guided by a marshaller who was not using correct hand signaling techniques and appeared to wave at the pilot in a “follow me” fashion. As the pilot continued to taxi straight ahead, the marshaller stopped giving hand signals and watched the pilot continuing to taxi straight ahead before executing a sharp right turn directly into a parked airplane. During the turn, the taxiing airplane’s left wing impacted the parked airplane’s left propeller resulting in substantial damage to the taxiing airplane and minor damage to the parked airplane. The taxiing pilot reported she did not see the other airplane because her attention was focused on the marshaller.
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain an adequate visual lookout during taxi, which resulted in a collision with a parked airplane. Contributing was the marshaller’s improper marshalling techniques.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA23LA171
- Event ID
- 20230329106976
- Case number
- ERA23LA171
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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: a044dea19177ce79eedae709a07fa9d3a76170630e0121dbbcaeef7b810fb5c8; retrieved 2026-09-16T17:27:59.855Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure. City misspelled; I68 is Warren County Airport/John Lane Field at Lebanon, OH.