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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Beaufort, SC · July 30, 1991

Date
July 30, 1991 · 09:45 local
Place
Beaufort, SC
Airport
Beaufort County Airport
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N92010
Reported as
Piper J3C65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,600 total150 in this make and model120 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 hand propped engine and person holding tail let it slip. Struck another aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND PROPPED ENGINE AND PERSON HOLDING TAIL LET IT SLIP. STRUCK ANOTHER AIRCRAFT.