19791227035739I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 720BOEING/ · Phoenix, AZ · December 27, 1979

Date
December 27, 1979 · 19:00 local
Place
Phoenix, AZ
Airport
Sky Harbor International
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Travel club
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N722TU
Reported as
Boeing 720BOEING/
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.

Parked aircraft was struck by taxiing navy helicopter.

As the FAA filed it

PARKED AIRCRAFT WAS STRUCK BY TAXIING NAVY HELICOPTER.