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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28161 · Danbury, CT · March 29, 1989

Date
March 29, 1989 · 16:27 local
Place
Danbury, CT
Airport
Danbury Municipal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N28365
Reported as
Piper PA28161
Reported engine
Lycoming O320D3G
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
77 total77 in this make and model15 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.

Student pilot struck the left wing tip of a parked aircraft. Minor damage to wing tip.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT STRUCK THE LEFT WING TIP OF A PARKED AIRCRAFT. MINOR DAMAGE TO WING TIP.