19781222021379I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 18* · Detroit, MI · December 22, 1978

Date
December 22, 1978 · 12:33 local
Place
Detroit, MI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N37CB
Reported as
Beech 18*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total1,300 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 running up engine in parking area a gust of wind lifted the tail and plane nosed over.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT RUNNING UP ENGINE IN PARKING AREA A GUST OF WIND LIFTED THE TAIL AND PLANE NOSED OVER.