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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Anchorage, AK · May 3, 1981

Date
May 3, 1981 · 11:35 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Airport
Anchorage
Phase of flight
Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
WAAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N496WC
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
78
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
25,700 total3,200 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.

The left wingtip of one aircraft struck the radome of another, both on ground.

As the FAA filed it

THE LEFT WINGTIP OF ONE AIRCRAFT STRUCK THE RADOME OF ANOTHER, BOTH ON GROUND.