# Incident 19940312000789I: Piper PA28151, Albany, NY, March 12, 1994

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 12, 1994, 13:00 local time
- Place: Albany, NY
- Airport: Albany County
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.7491° N, 73.8020° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ALBANY INTL (ALB), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.7491&lon=-73.8020&mi=10
- Aircraft: N188AV, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N188AV-1997-03-10) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-151 (registry code 7102805, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-151) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28151
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 80 total, 80 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940312000789I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: UPON COMPLETION OF LANDING, PILOT WAS INSTRUCTED TO TAXI TO FBO. UPON TAXIING TO THE RAMP AREA, THE PILOT OBSERVED A B727 TO HIS RIGHT. ADJACENT TO THE B727 NUMEROUS PEOPLE WERE OBSERVED TO BE BOARDING. THE PILOT, IN AN EFFORT TO ALLOW A GREATER DISTANCE BETWEEN HIS AIRPLANE AND THE LOADING B727, MOVED TO THE EXTREME LEFT SIDE OF THE RAMP. IN DOING SO, HE ALLOWED HIS LEFT WING TIP TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH A SNOW BANK THEREBY CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO THE LEFT WING. NO INJURIES. THIS INCIDENT IS CLOSED.

## Other reports on N188AV (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19950418008279A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950418008279A), Apr 18, 1995: Piper PA28151 (N188AV), Farmingdale, NY, Substantial damage. First solo flight. Lost directional control on takeoff. Veered off runway into a ditch nosed down.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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