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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-25-235 · Vacaville, CA · February 19, 1988

Date: February 19, 1988 · 14:00 local
Place: Vacaville, CA
Airport: Vacaville Gilderport
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N4440Y
Reported as: Piper PA25235
Reported engine: Lycoming O540B2B5
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 20,220 total

N4440YRegistered now · Piper PA-25-235S/N 25-4074 · Built 1966 Airframe modelPiper PA-25-235 Engine modelLycoming 0-540 seriesReciprocating

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.

Drug tow rope across another rope already on the ground. The two ropes engaged a parked glider and struck its pilot

As the FAA filed it

DRUG TOW ROPE ACROSS ANOTHER ROPE ALREADY ON THE GROUND. THE TWO ROPES ENGAGED A PARKED GLIDER AND STRUCK ITS PILOT