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| Date: | Friday 24 April 2015 |
| Time: | 12:00 LT |
| Type: |  Diamond DA20-C1 |
| Owner/operator: | Amval LLC |
| Registration: | N309EF |
| MSN: | C0262 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2004 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Los Angeles-Van Nuys Airport, CA (VNY/KVNY) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Los Angeles-Van Nuys Airport, CA (VNY/KVNY) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Cessna 150M (N6211K) and a Diamond DA20 (N309EF), sustained damage during a ground collision at Van Nuys Airport (VNY), California. The Cessna sustained substantial damage and the Diamond sustained minor damage. The private pilot and pilot rated passenger of the Cessna, and the student pilot of the Diamond were not injured.
The student pilot of the Diamond received clearance from the ground controller to taxi to the run-up area for runway 16R via taxiway A1. The Diamond student reported that he stopped and looked in both directions before slowly proceeding left onto taxiway A (not A1 as instructed), at which point he observed the Cessna moving to his left around a jet on taxiway A and approaching his position. The Diamond student stopped to see what the Cessna pilot was going to do, and his airplane was then struck by the Cessna.
Probable Cause: Both pilots' failure to see and avoid each other, which resulted in an on-ground collision while taxiing. Contributing to the accident was the ground controller's failure to notify either pilot about the presence of the other airplane on the taxiway.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB WPR15LA154
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 January 2016 | N309EF | Encore Flight Academy | 0 | Moorpark, NE of Camarillo Airport (KCMA), Camarillo, CA | |
non |
| 17 July 2018 | N309EF | Amval LLC | 0 | Los Angeles-Van Nuys Airport, CA (VNY/KVNY) | |
sub |
| Gear collapse | ||||||
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 07-Oct-2022 09:12 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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