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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 175 · Chapel Hill, NC · June 29, 1990

Date: June 29, 1990 · 13:00 local
Place: Chapel Hill, NC
Airport: Horace Williams Airport
Phase of flight: Aerial Taxi, Other Helicopter
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7153M
Reported as: Cessna 175
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,300 total200 in this make and model25 in the last 90 days

N7153MRegistered now · Cessna 175S/N 55453 · Built 1958 Airframe modelCessna 175 Engine modelContinental GO-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.

During taxiing to ramp aircraft went into a ditch. Nose gear sheared off. Ditch not marked.

As the FAA filed it

DURING TAXIING TO RAMP AIRCRAFT WENT INTO A DITCH. NOSE GEAR SHEARED OFF. DITCH NOT MARKED.