# Incident 19981221044429I: Boeing 747*, Denver, CO, December 21, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 21, 1998, 08:00 local time
- Place: Denver, CO
- Airport: Denver International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Other Ground Ops
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: GPMA
- Location: 39.8617° N, 104.6732° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DENVER INTL (DEN), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.8617&lon=-104.6732&mi=10
- Aircraft: PHMCF (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 747*
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981221044429I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON MONDAY, DECEMBER21,1998, AT APPROXIMATELY 0800 MST, THE RIGHT WING TIP AND RIGHT AILERON OF PHMCF,A BOEING MODEL 747, WERE DAMAGED DURING DE-ICING OPERATIONS. THE DE-ICING OPERATION WAS BEING CONDUCTED BY UNITED AIRLINES RAMP SERVICES. ACCORDING TO UNITED AIRLINES RAMP SERVICES REPRESENTATIVES, THE BOOM OF THE DE-ICING VEHICLE STRUCK THE UNDERSIDE OF THE RIGHT WING TIP AND AILERON WHEN IT WAS DRIVEN UNDER THE WING WHILE THE BOOM WAS EXTENDED. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE. NO PERSONS WERE INJURED. THE AIRCRAFT WAS REGISTERED UNDER THE DUTCH REGISTRY AND BEING OPERATED BY MARITNAIRE INC. UNDER FAR PAR 129 FOR CARGO OPERATIONS. VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONSPREVAILED AT THE TIME OF THE OCCURENCE.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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