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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper J5B · Boonville, NY · April 29, 1985

Date
April 29, 1985 · 19:30 local
Place
Boonville, NY
Airport
Boonville
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N40986
Reported as
Piper J5B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
37 total9 in this make and model10 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.

Propped engine without tieing tail down. Brake would not hold aircraft as it taxied into parked 70728.

As the FAA filed it

PROPPED ENGINE WITHOUT TIEING TAIL DOWN. BRAKE WOULD NOT HOLD AIRCRAFT AS IT TAXIED INTO PARKED 70728.