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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA23250 · West Chicago, IL · December 4, 1978

Date
December 4, 1978 · 13:45 local
Place
West Chicago, IL
Airport
Dupage
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N63785
Reported as
Piper PA23250
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total15 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 along the edge of the ramp struck the tail of a parked airplane.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIING ALONG THE EDGE OF THE RAMP STRUCK THE TAIL OF A PARKED AIRPLANE.