19931221050769I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Killeen, TX · December 21, 1993

Date
December 21, 1993 · 09:35 local
Place
Killeen, TX
Airport
Killeen Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
AVKV
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N668FL
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E3D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
24 total24 in this make and model24 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 ground looped aircraft while taxiing for departure. Throttle became stuck in full open position.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT GROUND LOOPED AIRCRAFT WHILE TAXIING FOR DEPARTURE. THROTTLE BECAME STUCK IN FULL OPEN POSITION.