19780627035641I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Flushing, NY · June 27, 1978

Date
June 27, 1978 · 20:35 local
Place
Flushing, NY
Airport
La Guardia
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AAL
Collision
Midair collision, first aircraft
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N958
Reported as
Boeing 727
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.

This aircraft struck N902 while taxiing past aircraft being held.

As the FAA filed it

THIS AIRCRAFT STRUCK N902 WHILE TAXIING PAST AIRCRAFT BEING HELD.