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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172M · Huntington Beac, CA · July 11, 1978

Date
July 11, 1978 · 20:15 local
Place
Huntington Beac, CA
Airport
Meadowlark
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N20647
Reported as
Cessna 172M
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
697 total437 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 chocked the wheels and propped the engine. It got away, collided with four parked planes before stopping.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT CHOCKED THE WHEELS AND PROPPED THE ENGINE. IT GOT AWAY, COLLIDED WITH FOUR PARKED PLANES BEFORE STOPPING.

Other reports on N20647 · 1

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