19811129085349I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 737-297 · Hilo, HI · November 29, 1981

Date
November 29, 1981 · 16:10 local
Place
Hilo, HI
Airport
Hilo
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TSAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N726AL
Reported as
Boeing 737297
People aboard
123
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total30,005 in this make and model5 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.

Aircraft approached wrong gate. Turned toward correct one but hit jetway at wrong gate.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT APPROACHED WRONG GATE. TURNED TOWARD CORRECT ONE BUT HIT JETWAY AT WRONG GATE.

Other reports on N726AL · 1

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