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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 737-291 · Rapid City, SD · September 18, 1986

Date
September 18, 1986 · 19:39 local
Place
Rapid City, SD
Airport
Rapid City Regional
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UALA
Aircraft
N986UA
Reported as
Boeing 737291
People aboard
60
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,802 total1,943 in this make and model214 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.

Due to poor visibility and lack of ramp lighting, aircraft taxied onto median. Gravel broke windows during powerout

As the FAA filed it

DUE TO POOR VISIBILITY AND LACK OF RAMP LIGHTING, AIRCRAFT TAXIED ONTO MEDIAN. GRAVEL BROKE WINDOWS DURING POWEROUT

Other reports on N986UA · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.