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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC861 · Houston, TX · August 8, 1979

Date
August 8, 1979 · 23:05 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Intercontinental
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
FTL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N863
Reported as
Doug DC861
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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.

Wingtip struck hangar while following ground personnel taxi instructions.

As the FAA filed it

WINGTIP STRUCK HANGAR WHILE FOLLOWING GROUND PERSONNEL TAXI INSTRUCTIONS.