19780128003829I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · St Paul, MN · January 28, 1978

Date: January 28, 1978 · 14:15 local
Place: St Paul, MN
Airport: Lake Elmo
Phase of flight: Starting Engines
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Substantial damage
Aircraft: N1701
Reported as: Cessna 172
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 530 total400 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N1701Registered now · Cessna 172FS/N 17252418 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172F Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot set parking brake and hand propped aircraft. Plane started to move and struck N1620V.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SET PARKING BRAKE AND HAND PROPPED AIRCRAFT. PLANE STARTED TO MOVE AND STRUCK N1620V.