# Incident 19811227089549I: Hwksly HS748*, St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 27, 1981

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 27, 1981, 08:15 local time
- Place: St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Airport: Harry S Truman
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Location: 18.3533° N, 64.9365° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Saint Thomas, VI, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=18.3533&lon=-64.9365&mi=10
- Aircraft: VPLIP (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: HWKSLY HS748*
- Reported engine: RROYCE DART5322L
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,500 total, 4,700 in this make and model, 112 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19811227089549I

## Narrative

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

BEGAN TAXI FROM GATE, STRUCK APU. SHUT DOWN. INADEQUATE GROUND CREW. CAPTAIN HAD NO CLEAR SIGNAL.

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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