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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28161 · Chicago/Waukega, IL · December 11, 1990

Date
December 11, 1990 · 16:50 local
Place
Chicago/Waukega, IL
Airport
Waukegan Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N80166
Reported as
Piper PA28161
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total150 in this make and model7 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 mistook black soil for asphalt and taxied into dirt. Taxiway was under contruction.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MISTOOK BLACK SOIL FOR ASPHALT AND TAXIED INTO DIRT. TAXIWAY WAS UNDER CONTRUCTION.