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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA34200T · Richland, WA · February 8, 1980

Date
February 8, 1980 · 15:35 local
Place
Richland, WA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Idling Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9029K
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
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.

Pilot jump-started engine. No-one aboard. The brakes released & aircraft collided with a parked airplane.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT JUMP-STARTED ENGINE. NO-ONE ABOARD. THE BRAKES RELEASED & AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH A PARKED AIRPLANE.