Cessna 172G N1178F

Summary

On 15 February 2025 at about 13:30 local time, a Cessna 172G registered N1178F was involved in an accident near Syracuse, New York, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

15 February 2025 at 13:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Syracuse, New York, United States

Nearest airport

Syracuse Hancock Intl (SYR)

Coordinates

43.0000, -76.0000

Aircraft

Cessna 172G

Registration

N1178F

Category

Airplane

Year built

1966

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA25LA121

Nobody was injured.

The truck driver’s to see and avoid the airplane, which resulted in a collision.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight instructor and the student pilot had just been cleared to taxi from the ramp to the active runway. According to the instructor, as soon as they began to roll forward, an airport operations truck struck the airplane from the right, which resulted in substantial damage to an engine mount. According to the truck driver, had stopped on the service road, short the ramp. He described that there was a large snowbank on his left that obscured his field of vision. As he drove forward, and passed the snowbank, he impacted the airplane. A review of air traffic control (ATC) communications revealed that the truck driver was clear of the active movement area when the accident occurred and was no longer talking to ATC. The impact occurred about 21 seconds after ATC cleared the airplane to taxi.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.