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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airbus A320-231 · San Francisco, CA · August 19, 1997

Date
August 19, 1997 · 21:40 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
San Francisco International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AWXA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N629AW
Reported as
Airbus A320231
People aboard
150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,799 total2,830 in this make and model120 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: after push-back, the captain began to taxi the airplane while the push-back tug, tug driver and right -wing walker were in front of the aircraft. The ground personnel ran to safety, and the aircraft and tug collided.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AFTER PUSH-BACK, THE CAPTAIN BEGAN TO TAXI THE AIRPLANE WHILE THE PUSH-BACK TUG, TUG DRIVER AND RIGHT -WING WALKER WERE IN FRONT OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE GROUND PERSONNEL RAN TO SAFETY, AND THE AIRCRAFT AND TUG COLLIDED.