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Instructor pilot reported having to evade an unlit and unreported tower located on top of a building approximately 150 feet left of centerline.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1547709 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201805 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | 1F7.Airport |
| State Reference | TX |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 15000 Flight Crew Type 1000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 180 Vertical 90 |
Narrative:
While executing a missed visual approach to runway 13 in a 15 knot crosswind (wind was about 180 at 10-15 knots) the aircraft drifted left of runway 13 centerline. Not really unusual for this aircraft with its power with a right crosswind for it to drift slightly left. What happened next is we almost hit a unlit tower about 150 ft. Left of centerline with the left wing. (We may have missed it by 20 ft.). It looks like the airport placed a 40 ft. Tower on top of a 50 ft. Building that is made out of heavy steel and it has no lights on it at all. While taxiing around the airport and walking around the airport; we noticed there are construction cones all over the place. We checked the airport's NOTAMS twice and there is nothing for unlit tower or of the construction cones. This is an accident waiting to kill someone.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Instructor pilot reported having to evade an unlit and unreported tower located on top of a building approximately 150 feet left of centerline.
Narrative: While executing a missed visual approach to runway 13 in a 15 knot crosswind (wind was about 180 at 10-15 knots) the aircraft drifted left of runway 13 centerline. Not really unusual for this aircraft with its power with a right crosswind for it to drift slightly left. What happened next is we almost hit a UNLIT tower about 150 ft. left of centerline with the left wing. (We may have missed it by 20 ft.). It looks like the airport placed a 40 ft. tower on top of a 50 ft. building that is made out of heavy steel and it has NO lights on it at all. While taxiing around the airport and walking around the airport; we noticed there are construction cones all over the place. We checked the airport's NOTAMS twice and there is nothing for UNLIT tower or of the construction cones. This is an accident waiting to kill someone.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.