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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA22 · Rapid City, SD · August 7, 1979

Date
August 7, 1979 · 18:26 local
Place
Rapid City, SD
Airport
Regional
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3947P
Reported as
Piper PA22
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
700 total350 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.

As aircraft turned off runway onto taxiway 50KT gust of wind lifted plane up and flipped onto back.

As the FAA filed it

AS AIRCRAFT TURNED OFF RUNWAY ONTO TAXIWAY 50KT GUST OF WIND LIFTED PLANE UP AND FLIPPED ONTO BACK.