19971023030879I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150F · Elba, AL · October 23, 1997

Date
October 23, 1997 · 14:50 local
Place
Elba, AL
Airport
Elba
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N8722G
Reported as
Cessna 150F
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
304 total250 in this make and model24 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.

Hand prop start. Aircraft not secured taxied down runway over bank into trees.

As the FAA filed it

HAND PROP START. AIRCRAFT NOT SECURED TAXIED DOWN RUNWAY OVER BANK INTO TREES.