19811031074561A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Cessna 120 · Jamestown, NY · October 31, 1981

Date
October 31, 1981 · 16:30 local
Place
Jamestown, NY
Airport
Chautauqua Co
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Collision
Midair collision, first aircraft
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N76274
Reported as
Cessna 120
Reported engine
Continental C85*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
230 total110 in this make and model20 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.

Lost control while taxiing to ramp. Struck parked aircraft N43WU that was occupied for purpose of flight.

As the FAA filed it

LOST CONTROL WHILE TAXIING TO RAMP. STRUCK PARKED AIRCRAFT N43WU THAT WAS OCCUPIED FOR PURPOSE OF FLIGHT.