What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
While parking aircraft a wingtip struck the control tower.
As the FAA filed it
WHILE PARKING AIRCRAFT A WINGTIP STRUCK THE CONTROL TOWER.
FAA incident report · Gulstm AA5B · Santa Monica, CA · December 3, 1985
- Date
- December 3, 1985 · 15:53 local
- Place
- Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- Santa Monica Municipal Airport
- Phase of flight
- Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N28513
- Reported as
- Gulstm AA5B
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 0 in this make and model0 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.