19791114056069I

Incident · Destroyed

FAA incident report · Beech TC45J · San Juan, Puerto Rico · November 14, 1979

Date
November 14, 1979 · 18:10 local
Place
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
VAI
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N90576
Reported as
Beech TC45J
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.

While taxiing, right prop hit mobile fuel unit. Fire destroyed aircraft and cargo, seriously injured pilot.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TAXIING, RIGHT PROP HIT MOBILE FUEL UNIT. FIRE DESTROYED AIRCRAFT AND CARGO, SERIOUSLY INJURED PILOT.

Other reports on N90576 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.