# Incident 19800420044619I: Piper PA28140, St Petersburg, FL, April 20, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 20, 1980, 23:00 local time
- Place: St Petersburg, FL
- Airport: Albert Whitted
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Starting Engines
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.7651° N, 82.6269° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ALBERT WHITTED (SPG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.7651&lon=-82.6269&mi=10
- Aircraft: N56522, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N56522-1989-05-15) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28140
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 100 total, 2 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800420044619I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ENGINE STARTED DURING PROP START WITH NO ONE AT CONTROLS, RESULTING IN COLLISION WITH CONCRETE WALL.

## Other reports on N56522 (1)

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

- [Accident 19860926086739A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860926086739A), Sep 26, 1986: Piper PA28140 (N56522), Arcadia, FL, Substantial damage. The engine lost power. The aircraft nosed over on landing. Exhaust valve fractured. Auto and avgas fuel used.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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