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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Univar 415E · Greenville, MI · February 5, 1983

Date
February 5, 1983 · 12:30 local
Place
Greenville, MI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N94830
Reported as
Univar 415E
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
276 total50 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.

Pilot hand-started aircraft with no one in cockpit. Airplane struck another parked aircraft. One wheel was chocked.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND-STARTED AIRCRAFT WITH NO ONE IN COCKPIT. AIRPLANE STRUCK ANOTHER PARKED AIRCRAFT. ONE WHEEL WAS CHOCKED.