19881228067689I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421C · Dallas-Ft Worth, TX · December 28, 1988

Date
December 28, 1988 · 00:30 local
Place
Dallas-Ft Worth, TX
Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N44AR
Reported as
Cessna 421C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,000 total3,000 in this make and model150 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.

Blinded by taxi lights from a DC1O. Taxied nose gear into a curb at edge of ramp collapsing the nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

BLINDED BY TAXI LIGHTS FROM A DC1O. TAXIED NOSE GEAR INTO A CURB AT EDGE OF RAMP COLLAPSING THE NOSE GEAR.