19781009029919I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm G1159 · New York, NY · October 9, 1978

Date
October 9, 1978 · 10:23 local
Place
New York, NY
Airport
La Guardia
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4000X
Reported as
Gulstm G1159
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total2,500 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 taxiing in close quarters struck a parked aircraft with a ting tip.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIING IN CLOSE QUARTERS STRUCK A PARKED AIRCRAFT WITH A TING TIP.