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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Vought F4U-5 · Dayton, OH · July 25, 1988

Date
July 25, 1988 · 13:25 local
Place
Dayton, OH
Airport
James M Cox Dayton International
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N65WF
Reported as
Vought F4U5
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R2000*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,000 total57 in this make and model40 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 inadvertently allowed propeller to strike runway during takeoff. He was checking position of other aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INADVERTENTLY ALLOWED PROPELLER TO STRIKE RUNWAY DURING TAKEOFF. HE WAS CHECKING POSITION OF OTHER AIRCRAFT.