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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200 · Covington, GA · November 17, 1995

Date
November 17, 1995 · 22:42 local
Place
Covington, GA
Airport
Covington Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N55777
Reported as
Piper PA34200
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
392 total33 in this make and model15 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.

Narrative: pilot landed at Covington airport without incident. Ramp personnel was marshaling aircraft into parking ramp when left wing struck an open chain link gate. Minor damage only.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT LANDED AT COVINGTON AIRPORT WITHOUT INCIDENT. RAMP PERSONNEL WAS MARSHALING AIRCRAFT INTO PARKING RAMP WHEN LEFT WING STRUCK AN OPEN CHAIN LINK GATE. MINOR DAMAGE ONLY.