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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA34200 · Houston, TX · May 23, 1991

Date
May 23, 1991 · 23:30 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
David Wayne Hooks Memorial Arp
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N16364
Reported as
Piper PA34200
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
420 total30 in this make and model129 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 taxied on unlit and unmarked taxiway at night. Left gear fell into ditch.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIED ON UNLIT AND UNMARKED TAXIWAY AT NIGHT. LEFT GEAR FELL INTO DITCH.