19790420024509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-224 · Houston, TX · April 20, 1979

Date
April 20, 1979 · 20:34 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Intercontinental
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
CAL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N88709
Reported as
Boeing 727224
People aboard
84
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
14,000 total2,060 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 struck a service truck during taxi. Damaged the wingtip.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STRUCK A SERVICE TRUCK DURING TAXI. DAMAGED THE WINGTIP.

Other reports on N88709 · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.