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Incident · Destroyed

FAA incident report · Airshp SKYSHIP 500 · Linden, NJ · September 7, 1998

Date
September 7, 1998 · 14:45 local
Place
Linden, NJ
Airport
Linden
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N501LP
Reported as
Airshp SKYSHIP500

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.

(-5)Win was estimated at approximately 100 knots. Airship was moored to a secured 40 ton truck, the wind blew the truck over causing the mooring attachment to fail. Airship was blown approximately a half mile knocking over light stanchions on a baseball field until it wrapped around power wires.

As the FAA filed it

(-5)WIN WAS ESTIMATED AT APPROXIMATELY 100 KNOTS. AIRSHIP WAS MOORED TO A SECURED 40 TON TRUCK, THE WIND BLEW THE TRUCK OVER CAUSING THE MOORING ATTACHMENT TO FAIL. AIRSHIP WAS BLOWN APPROXIMATELY A HALF MILE KNOCKING OVER LIGHT STANCHIONS ON A BASEBALL FIELD UNTIL IT WRAPPED AROUND POWER WIRES.