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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J5A · Cambridge, MD · September 19, 1992

Date
September 19, 1992 · 13:15 local
Place
Cambridge, MD
Airport
Cambridge Dorchester Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N37959
Reported as
Piper J5A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
364 total180 in this make and model4 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.

Instructor on a high speed tail up taxi inadvertently touched brakes. Nose pitched down. Propeller struck runway.

As the FAA filed it

INSTRUCTOR ON A HIGH SPEED TAIL UP TAXI INADVERTENTLY TOUCHED BRAKES.NOSE PITCHED DOWN. PROPELLER STRUCK RUNWAY.