19891221064129I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 207 · Quinhagak, AK · December 21, 1989

Date
December 21, 1989 · 18:30 local
Place
Quinhagak, AK
Airport
Quinhagak Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
HERA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N73733
Reported as
Cessna 207
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,800 total147 in this make and model147 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.

Struck a carton of dry goods while taxiing to ramp at night. Could not see due to blinding flood light.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A CARTON OF DRY GOODS WHILE TAXIING TO RAMP AT NIGHT. COULD NOT SEE DUE TO BLINDING FLOOD LIGHT.