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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 7272S2F · Appleton, WI · December 15, 1987

Date
December 15, 1987 · 09:45 local
Place
Appleton, WI
Airport
Outagamie County
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
FDEA
Aircraft
N212FE
Reported as
Boeing 7272S2F
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,400 total166 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.

Pilot reported strong surface wind caused aircraft to weathervane off the runway while aircraft awaited takeoff.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT REPORTED STRONG SURFACE WIND CAUSED AIRCRAFT TO WEATHERVANE OFF THE RUNWAY WHILE AIRCRAFT AWAITED TAKEOFF.