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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC9 · Flushing, NY · March 3, 1978

Date
March 3, 1978 · 07:45 local
Place
Flushing, NY
Airport
La Guardia
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EAL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8926E
Reported as
Doug DC9
People aboard
102
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

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.

Aircraft damaged while parked at gate by a rolling, driverless vehicle.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT DAMAGED WHILE PARKED AT GATE BY A ROLLING, DRIVERLESS VEHICLE.

Other reports on N8926E · 4

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