19790422024629I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm G-164A · Miles City, MT · April 22, 1979

Date
April 22, 1979 · 09:30 local
Place
Miles City, MT
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9538
Reported as
Gulstm G164A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,500 total1,700 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 parked tail into the wind, waiting to reload. Airplane blown over by a gust of wind.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT PARKED TAIL INTO THE WIND, WAITING TO RELOAD. AIRPLANE BLOWN OVER BY A GUST OF WIND.