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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-44 · Terre Haute, IN · June 24, 1987

Date: June 24, 1987 · 02:53 local
Place: Terre Haute, IN
Airport: Hulman Regional
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator: EISA
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N723JE
Reported as: Boeing 72744
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 5,500 total180 in the last 90 days

N723JERegistration cancelled Aug 12, 2003 · Boeing 727-44S/N 18896 · Built 1968 Airframe modelBoeing 727-44 Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT8D-9 seriesTurbo-jet

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.

Taxiing with a marshaller and a left and right wing walker. The left wing tip struck a portable light stand.

As the FAA filed it

TAXIING WITH A MARSHALLER AND A LEFT AND RIGHT WING WALKER. THE LEFT WING TIP STRUCK A PORTABLE LIGHT STAND.