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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 152 · Romulus, MI · April 28, 1984

Date
April 28, 1984 · 15:00 local
Place
Romulus, MI
Airport
Detroit Metro
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4648B
Reported as
Cessna 152
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
285 total50 in this make and model35 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.

A low flying rocky mountain helicopter flew low over the parked unsecured 152. Down wash caused wing tip strikes.

As the FAA filed it

A LOW FLYING ROCKY MOUNTAIN HELICOPTER FLEW LOW OVER THE PARKED UNSECURED 152. DOWN WASH CAUSED WING TIP STRIKES.