19881205067739I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Lkheed 188C · Atlanta, GA · December 5, 1988

Date
December 5, 1988 · 15:00 local
Place
Atlanta, GA
Airport
The William B Hartsfield Atla
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TPIA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N861U
Reported as
Lkheed 188C
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
14,000 in this make and model100 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 unaware ground equipment not removed. Began taxi and hit ground start unit.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT UNAWARE GROUND EQUIPMENT NOT REMOVED. BEGAN TAXI AND HIT GROUND START UNIT.