19791027054129I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 747* · Agana, Guam · October 27, 1979

Date
October 27, 1979 · 04:55 local
Place
Agana, Guam
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
BNF
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N610BN
Reported as
Boeing 747*
People aboard
218
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
30,000 total800 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.

Captain superseded tower taxi instructions. Taxied to a more congested area. Jet blast damaged another airplane.

As the FAA filed it

CAPTAIN SUPERSEDED TOWER TAXI INSTRUCTIONS. TAXIED TO A MORE CONGESTED AREA. JET BLAST DAMAGED ANOTHER AIRPLANE.