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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA34200T · Charleston, WV · April 2, 1986

Date
April 2, 1986 · 16:15 local
Place
Charleston, WV
Airport
Yeager
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N47939
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
25,000 total500 in this make and model100 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.

During taxi with attention diverted to radio switching, aircraft struck a parked aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

DURING TAXI WITH ATTENTION DIVERTED TO RADIO SWITCHING, AIRCRAFT STRUCK A PARKED AIRCRAFT.