C172 pilot suffers prop strike when taxiing over a chuckhole obscured by a water puddle.

Attributes
ACN	819363
Time
Date	200812
Local Time Of Day	1201 To 1800
Place
Locale Reference	airport : zzz.airport
State Reference	US
Altitude	agl single value : 0
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Operator	general aviation : personal
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	ground : taxi
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Affiliation	other
Function	flight crew : single pilot
Qualification	pilot : private
Experience	flight time last 90 days : 2 flight time total : 700 flight time type : 550
ASRS Report	819363
Events
Anomaly	other anomaly other
Independent Detector	other flight crewa
Resolutory Action	none taken : detected after the fact
Consequence	other
Supplementary
Problem Areas	Aircraft Airport
Primary Problem	Airport
Situations
Airport	taxiway surface condition : zzz.airport

Narrative:

While taxiing partly around and partly through a water-filled chuckhole on a narrow taxiway between hangars; I must have tracked a deeper part than earlier in the day; causing a prop strike. I did not notice the damage to the tips of the prop blades until engine shutdown shortly afterwards. The following factors contributed to the incident: having successfully taxied partly around and partly through that same chuckhole a few hours earlier in the opposite direction; operating in dual instruction mode; and poor maintenance of a taxiway at an attended airport with paved runway and taxiways.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot suffers prop strike when taxiing over a chuckhole obscured by a water puddle.

Narrative: While taxiing partly around and partly through a water-filled chuckhole on a narrow taxiway between hangars; I must have tracked a deeper part than earlier in the day; causing a prop strike. I did not notice the damage to the tips of the prop blades until engine shutdown shortly afterwards. The following factors contributed to the incident: having successfully taxied partly around and partly through that same chuckhole a few hours earlier in the opposite direction; operating in dual instruction mode; and poor maintenance of a taxiway at an attended airport with paved runway and taxiways.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of May 2009 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.