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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172H · Las Vegas, NV · September 14, 1998

Date
September 14, 1998 · 20:40 local
Place
Las Vegas, NV
Airport
North Las Vegas Air Terminal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4971R
Reported as
Cessna 172H
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Taxiing off this runway onto taxiway charlie, at night the student taxied into a ditch. The instructor (bergson) felt the lighting on the taxiways at this intersection was inadequate.

As the FAA filed it

TAXIING OFF THIS RUNWAY ONTO TAXIWAY CHARLIE, AT NIGHT THE STUDENT TAXIED INTO A DITCH. THE INSTRUCTOR (BERGSON) FELT THE LIGHTING ON THE TAXIWAYS AT THIS INTERSECTION WAS INADEQUATE.

Other reports on N4971R · 1

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