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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Hawthorne, CA · December 9, 1991

Date
December 9, 1991 · 17:30 local
Place
Hawthorne, CA
Airport
Hawthorne Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5086E
Reported as
Cessna 172N
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
220 total200 in this make and model20 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 telephone guy wire while taxiing at night. No lighting or marking on this wire. Airport manager corrected.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A TELEPHONE GUY WIRE WHILE TAXIING AT NIGHT. NO LIGHTING OR MARKING ON THIS WIRE. AIRPORT MANAGER CORRECTED.