19781225020729I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5B · Oklahoma City, OK · December 25, 1978

Date: December 25, 1978 · 14:00 local
Place: Oklahoma City, OK
Airport: Will Rogers World
Phase of flight: Starting Engines
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Substantial damage
Aircraft: N74442
Reported as: Gulstm AA5B
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 7,200 total0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N74442Registered now · Grumman American Avn. AA-5BS/N AA5B-0228 · Built 1975 Airframe modelGrumman American Avn. AA-5B Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 seriesReciprocating

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.

Operator hand propped plane because of a dead battery. Parking brake head one wheel. Plane rotated, struck a plane.

As the FAA filed it

OPERATOR HAND PROPPED PLANE BECAUSE OF A DEAD BATTERY. PARKING BRAKE HEAD ONE WHEEL. PLANE ROTATED, STRUCK A PLANE.