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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Jackson, MS · October 17, 1997

Date
October 17, 1997 · 13:55 local
Place
Jackson, MS
Airport
Hawkins Field Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N70705
Reported as
Piper J3C65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total350 in this make and model300 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 was taxiing aircraft on grass parallel to the runway to pickup a banner. Left main landing gear dropped into a hole and broke left main landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT WAS TAXIING AIRCRAFT ON GRASS PARALLEL TO THE RUNWAY TO PICKUP A BANNER. LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR DROPPED INTO A HOLE AND BROKE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR.

Other reports on N70705 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.