19821218066509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Fair Oaks, CA · December 18, 1982

Date
December 18, 1982 · 13:45 local
Place
Fair Oaks, CA
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9261M
Reported as
Mooney M20C
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total120 in this make and model32 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 hand-started aircraft. No one on board. Wing ties and wheel chocks removed. Hit another parked aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND-STARTED AIRCRAFT. NO ONE ON BOARD. WING TIES AND WHEEL CHOCKS REMOVED. HIT ANOTHER PARKED AIRCRAFT.