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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31 · Albany, NY · January 31, 1978

Date: January 31, 1978 · 17:10 local
Place: Albany, NY
Airport: Co
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N96342
Reported as: Piper PA31
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 4,400 total150 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N96342Registered now · Piper PA-31-350S/N 31-7405205 · Built 1977 Airframe modelPiper PA-31-350 Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

During taxi to parking rudder struck aileron counterweight of parked airplane.

As the FAA filed it

DURING TAXI TO PARKING RUDDER STRUCK AILERON COUNTERWEIGHT OF PARKED AIRPLANE.

Other reports on N96342 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

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