FAA incident report · Piper PA28R200 · Santa Ana, CA · February 5, 1980
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.
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Pilot taxied into parked aircraft & did not know he had done so. Was informed by ground control.
PILOT TAXIED INTO PARKED AIRCRAFT & DID NOT KNOW HE HAD DONE SO. WAS INFORMED BY GROUND CONTROL.
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.