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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Charlotte, MI · June 7, 1997

Date
June 7, 1997 · 10:25 local
Place
Charlotte, MI
Airport
Fitch Beach Airport
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1545E
Reported as
Cessna 172N
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
650 total15 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: times provided by the pilot. Pilot hand propped his airplane. It ran into a parked airplane. Pilot hand propped his airplane. No one was at the controls. It was not chocked or tied.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: TIMES PROVIDED BY THE PILOT. PILOT HAND PROPPED HIS AIRPLANE. IT RAN INTO A PARKED AIRPLANE. PILOT HAND PROPPED HIS AIRPLANE. NO ONE WAS AT THE CONTROLS. IT WAS NOT CHOCKED OR TIED.