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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Homestead, FL · March 2, 2000

Date
March 2, 2000 · 07:30 local
Place
Homestead, FL
Airport
Homestead Genrl Aviation Airport
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N137LH
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total500 in this make and model2 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.

(-5) Aircraft moved from chalks while pilot & passenger were looking around the cockpit, propeller cut the tail section of #2 aircraft (tomahawk)

As the FAA filed it

(-5) AIRCRAFT MOVED FROM CHALKS WHILE PILOT & PASSENGER WERE LOOKING AROUND THE COCKPIT, PROPELLER CUT THE TAIL SECTION OF #2 AIRCRAFT (TOMAHAWK)