19881124066429I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172E · Ketchikan, AK · November 24, 1988

Date: November 24, 1988 · 14:10 local
Place: Ketchikan, AK
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N172BH
Reported as: Cessna 172E
Reported engine: Continental O300D
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,000 total300 in this make and model140 in the last 90 days

N172BHRegistered now · Cessna 172ES/N 17251670 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172E Engine modelContinental 0-300 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.

While water taxiing and waiting for showers to stop, aircraft struck a log and a submerged rock.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE WATER TAXIING AND WAITING FOR SHOWERS TO STOP, AIRCRAFT STRUCK A LOG AND A SUBMERGED ROCK.