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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 140 · Kahului, HI · December 26, 1981

Date: December 26, 1981 · 11:41 local
Place: Kahului, HI
Airport: Kahului
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3574V
Reported as: Cessna 140
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 77 total60 in this make and model14 in the last 90 days

N3574VRegistered now · Cessna 140S/N 14749 Airframe modelCessna 140 Engine modelContinental C85 seriesReciprocating

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.

Blown up on wing tip while crossing runway behind departing airliner. Gusty surface winds, impossible wake vortices

As the FAA filed it

BLOWN UP ON WING TIP WHILE CROSSING RUNWAY BEHIND DEPARTING AIRLINER. GUSTY SURFACE WINDS, IMPOSSIBLE WAKE VORTICES