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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell 520 · San Francisco, CA · September 26, 1979

Date
September 26, 1979 · 12:30 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N359T
Reported as
Rkwell 520
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total720 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 scraped wingtip on a fence during taxi turn in an unfamiliar area.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SCRAPED WINGTIP ON A FENCE DURING TAXI TURN IN AN UNFAMILIAR AREA.