19990813012499I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 140 · Mead, WA · August 13, 1999

Date
August 13, 1999 · 14:00 local
Place
Mead, WA
Airport
Mead Flying Service Airport
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N72915
Reported as
Cessna 140
Pilot’s flight hours
280 total280 in this make and model10 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.

Pilot hand-propped acft to move it to different parking spot, acft jumped chocks and taxied into N170XP that was tied down in parking area causing substantial damage to both acft. (-23) pilot hand-propped aircraft to move it to another parking spot. Aircraft jumped chocks, and ran into another parked aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAND-PROPPED ACFT TO MOVE IT TO DIFFERENT PARKING SPOT, ACFT JUMPED CHOCKS AND TAXIED INTO N170XP THAT WAS TIED DOWN IN PARKING AREA CAUSING SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO BOTH ACFT. (-23) PILOT HAND-PROPPED AIRCRAFT TO MOVE IT TO ANOTHER PARKING SPOT. AIRCRAFT JUMPED CHOCKS, AND RAN INTO ANOTHER PARKED AIRCRAFT.