A rented Cessna 172RG crashed into the Carver Aero fixed-base operator building at the Davenport Municipal Airport late Saturday.
Update 8:01 p.m. Sunday: Davenport Municipal Airport personnel temporarily boarded up a window and repaired a column after a single-engine Cessna crashed into the west side of a terminal building late Saturday, according to the Davenport Police Department.
The terminal was not open for business at the time.
The incident was reported at 10:22 p.m., and no one was injured. There was considerable damage to both the structure and glass front of the Carver Aero FBO terminal building and the aircraft, according to the news release from police Capt. David Struckman.
Carver-Aero opened the $3 million, 7,460-square-foot terminal in 2010 that also includes a 20,000-square-foot hangar.
Photographs sent to the Quad-City Times and others from Sandra Barrett, Carver Aero’s operations manager, shows the plane knocked out a large window and damaged a column.
Kevin M. Kadlec, 39, of Eagle River, Wis., rented the plane from Duffy’s Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc., based in Neillsville, Wis., according to the media release.
Kadlec said he was attempting to “hand-prop” the plane to get the engine started when it jumped away from him and traveled about 200 feet before it hit the building, according to the release.
To “hand prop” an airplane, one starts the engine by turning the propeller by hand.
According to the news release, there are numerous inconsistencies between the evidence at the scene and what Kadlec said happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have been notified and will be investigating the incident.
Carver Aero operates a charter business, flight ground school and maintenance services from the airport. The company not only has its own planes to maintain but it provides services to about 200 planes a year from the Davenport site.
Original story, posted 1:58 p.m. Sunday: A single-engine Cessna collided with the west side of a terminal building late Saturday at the Davenport Municipal Airport, according to Davenport Police.
The incident was reported at 10:22 p.m., and no one was injured. There was considerable damage to both the structure and glass front of the Carver Aero FBO terminal building and the aircraft, according to the media release from Capt. David Struckman.
The terminal was not open for business at the time.
Kevin M. Kadlec, 39, of Eagle River, Wis., rented the plane from Duffy’s Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc., based in Neillsville, Wis., according to the media release.
Kadlec said he was attempting to “hand-prop” the plane to get the engine started when it jumped away from him and traveled about 200 feet before it hit the building, according to the release.
To “hand prop” an airplane, one starts the engine by turning the propeller by hand.
According to the release, there are numerous inconsistencies between the evidence at the scene and what Kadlec said happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have been notified and will be investigating the incident.
The terminal was not open for business at the time.
The incident was reported at 10:22 p.m., and no one was injured. There was considerable damage to both the structure and glass front of the Carver Aero FBO terminal building and the aircraft, according to the news release from police Capt. David Struckman.
Carver-Aero opened the $3 million, 7,460-square-foot terminal in 2010 that also includes a 20,000-square-foot hangar.
Photographs sent to the Quad-City Times and others from Sandra Barrett, Carver Aero’s operations manager, shows the plane knocked out a large window and damaged a column.
Kevin M. Kadlec, 39, of Eagle River, Wis., rented the plane from Duffy’s Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc., based in Neillsville, Wis., according to the media release.
Kadlec said he was attempting to “hand-prop” the plane to get the engine started when it jumped away from him and traveled about 200 feet before it hit the building, according to the release.
To “hand prop” an airplane, one starts the engine by turning the propeller by hand.
According to the news release, there are numerous inconsistencies between the evidence at the scene and what Kadlec said happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have been notified and will be investigating the incident.
Carver Aero operates a charter business, flight ground school and maintenance services from the airport. The company not only has its own planes to maintain but it provides services to about 200 planes a year from the Davenport site.
Original story, posted 1:58 p.m. Sunday: A single-engine Cessna collided with the west side of a terminal building late Saturday at the Davenport Municipal Airport, according to Davenport Police.
The incident was reported at 10:22 p.m., and no one was injured. There was considerable damage to both the structure and glass front of the Carver Aero FBO terminal building and the aircraft, according to the media release from Capt. David Struckman.
The terminal was not open for business at the time.
Kevin M. Kadlec, 39, of Eagle River, Wis., rented the plane from Duffy’s Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc., based in Neillsville, Wis., according to the media release.
Kadlec said he was attempting to “hand-prop” the plane to get the engine started when it jumped away from him and traveled about 200 feet before it hit the building, according to the release.
To “hand prop” an airplane, one starts the engine by turning the propeller by hand.
According to the release, there are numerous inconsistencies between the evidence at the scene and what Kadlec said happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have been notified and will be investigating the incident.
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