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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 747-422 · San Francisco, CA · October 17, 1992

Date
October 17, 1992 · 09:00 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
San Francisco International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N180UA
Reported as
Boeing 747422
People aboard
271
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,801 total795 in this make and model135 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 attempted to park aircraft without ground crew. Left wing impacted the improperly positioned jetway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ATTEMPTED TO PARK AIRCRAFT WITHOUT GROUND CREW. LEFT WING IMPACTED THE IMPROPERLY POSITIONED JETWAY.