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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Crestwood, IL · April 21, 1978

Date
April 21, 1978 · 11:15 local
Place
Crestwood, IL
Airport
Howell
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5558U
Reported as
Piper PA28140
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.

Pilot primed engine, set brake & hand-propped airplane. Engine started & traveled across ramp striking N1893H.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT PRIMED ENGINE, SET BRAKE & HAND-PROPPED AIRPLANE. ENGINE STARTED & TRAVELED ACROSS RAMP STRIKING N1893H.