19781216022869I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Amtrdv DAVIS-DA2B · Lawrence, KS · December 16, 1978

Date
December 16, 1978 · 11:35 local
Place
Lawrence, KS
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N74FJ
Reported as
Amtrdv DAVISDA2B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total11 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 hand-propped plane. It got away and ran into a praked airplane.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND-PROPPED PLANE. IT GOT AWAY AND RAN INTO A PRAKED AIRPLANE.