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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31T1 · Wilmington, NC · April 22, 1996

Date
April 22, 1996 · 11:21 local
Place
Wilmington, NC
Airport
New Hanover County
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N480CA
Reported as
Piper PA31T1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,500 total800 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 the aircraft, the pilot became distracted by a departing C141 aircraft and taxied into a parked crash/rescue truck. The right hand wing tip tank went through the rear window of the truck causing minor injuries to the driver.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: WHILE TAXIING THE AIRCRAFT, THE PILOT BECAME DISTRACTED BY A DEPARTING C141 AIRCRAFT AND TAXIED INTO A PARKED CRASH/RESCUE TRUCK. THE RIGHT HAND WING TIP TANK WENT THROUGH THE REAR WINDOW OF THE TRUCK CAUSING MINOR INJURIES TO THE DRIVER.