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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31310 · Pittsburgh, PA · March 25, 1998

Date
March 25, 1998 · 05:10 local
Place
Pittsburgh, PA
Airport
Greater Pittsburgh International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N61410
Reported as
Piper PA31310
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,260 total190 in this make and model130 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: left propeller struck a taxiway light while negotiating a left turn from taxiway tango to taxiway echo, causing damage to the left propeller.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: LEFT PROPELLER STRUCK A TAXIWAY LIGHT WHILE NEGOTIATING A LEFT TURN FROM TAXIWAY TANGO TO TAXIWAY ECHO, CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE LEFT PROPELLER.