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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35BEECH · Santa Monica, CA · August 6, 1978

Date
August 6, 1978 · 11:30 local
Place
Santa Monica, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N769B
Reported as
Beech 35BEECH
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total1,000 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 accidently started when pilot pulled prop through by hand, struck parked aircraft N91481.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTLY STARTED WHEN PILOT PULLED PROP THROUGH BY HAND, STRUCK PARKED AIRCRAFT N91481.