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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28160 · Hessel, MI · September 18, 1979

Date
September 18, 1979 · 16:50 local
Place
Hessel, MI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2272M
Reported as
Piper PA28160
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
250 total125 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 taxiing on grass area toward concrete ramp. Nose wheel dropped into a hole, prop hit the concrete.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIING ON GRASS AREA TOWARD CONCRETE RAMP. NOSE WHEEL DROPPED INTO A HOLE, PROP HIT THE CONCRETE.