What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Taxied on unlighted taxiway with reflectors into a ditch.
As the FAA filed it
TAXIED ON UNLIGHTED TAXIWAY WITH REFLECTORS INTO A DITCH.
FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Birmingham, AL · October 24, 1997
- Date
- October 24, 1997 · 20:00 local
- Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Airport
- Birmingham Airport
- Phase of flight
- Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N3505X
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 1,000 total200 in this make and model6 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.