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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Eden Prairie, MN · February 28, 1985

Date
February 28, 1985 · 21:40 local
Place
Eden Prairie, MN
Airport
Flying Cloud
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4512L
Reported as
Piper PA28161
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
593 total593 in this make and model20 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 propped aircraft which started and continued on taxiway until it struck a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND PROPPED AIRCRAFT WHICH STARTED AND CONTINUED ON TAXIWAY UNTIL IT STRUCK A DITCH.