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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA44180 · Chapel Hill, NC · November 2, 1982

Date
November 2, 1982 · 18:30 local
Place
Chapel Hill, NC
Airport
Horace William
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N121JM
Reported as
Piper PA44180
Reported engine
Lycoming O360*
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,650 total320 in this make and model300 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.

Pilot taxied off runway on an unprepared grass area. Saw other plane on final at opposite end of runway. No tower.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIED OFF RUNWAY ON AN UNPREPARED GRASS AREA. SAW OTHER PLANE ON FINAL AT OPPOSITE END OF RUNWAY. NO TOWER.