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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-260 · Columbia, SC · April 3, 1996

Date
April 3, 1996 · 20:30 local
Place
Columbia, SC
Airport
Columbia Metropolitan
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3388W
Reported as
Piper PA32260
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total100 in this make and model30 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: while taxiing to hangar area near ups area, wing tip contacted cargo dolly causing minor damage to aircraft. Sections e, f, g are not pertinent to incident.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: WHILE TAXIING TO HANGAR AREA NEAR UPS AREA, WING TIP CONTACTED CARGO DOLLY CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT. SECTIONS E, F, G ARE NOT PERTINENT TO INCIDENT.