19831005060869I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Harlingen, TX · October 5, 1983

Date
October 5, 1983 · 15:15 local
Place
Harlingen, TX
Airport
Industrial
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N974
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
118
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 in this make and model68 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.

While taxiing for takeoff the aircrafts jet blast damaged parked aircraft. Misunderstood taxi instructions.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TAXIING FOR TAKEOFF THE AIRCRAFTS JET BLAST DAMAGED PARKED AIRCRAFT. MISUNDERSTOOD TAXI INSTRUCTIONS.