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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Tcraft BC12-D · Fitchburg, MA · September 2, 1992

Date
September 2, 1992 · 19:45 local
Place
Fitchburg, MA
Airport
Fitchburg Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N43066
Reported as
Tcraft BC12D
Reported engine
Continental A65*
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
96 total56 in this make and model

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. Unqualified person at controls. No tie down. Aircraft moved forward and struck a truck.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND PROPPED ENGINE. UNQUALIFIED PERSON AT CONTROLS. NO TIE DOWN. AIRCRAFT MOVED FORWARD AND STRUCK A TRUCK.