# Incident 20000523033449I: Saab 340B, Lafayette, LA, May 23, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 23, 2000, 19:17 local time
- Place: Lafayette, LA
- Airport: Lafayette Reg
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: SIMA
- Location: 30.2241° N, 92.0198° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Lafayette, LA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.2241&lon=-92.0198&mi=10
- Aircraft: N396AE, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N396AE-2009-10-19) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Saab-Scania SAAB 340B (registry code 7860101, https://openairdocs.org/model/saab-scania-saab-340b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: GE CT7-SER series (registry code 30031, https://openairdocs.org/engine/ge-ct7-ser-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: SAAB 340B
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 10,010 total, 5,154 in this make and model, 169 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000523033449I

## Narrative

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

(-23)AMERICAN EAGLE FLIGHT 393, N396AE, WHILE TAXING TO PARKING, STRUCK THE RIGHT WING OF PARKED N202KD, ALSO OPERATED BY AMERICAN EAGLE. THE RIGHT ALERON OF N202KD WAS DAMAGED AND THE LEFT WING NAVIGATION LIGHT, WING TIP DE-ICING BOOT OF N396AE, WAS DAMAGED.  NO PASSENGERS ON N369AE WERE INJURED AND THE WERE NO PASSENGERS ON N202KD.

## Other reports on N396AE (1)

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

- [Incident 19980222003769I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980222003769I), Feb 22, 1998: Saab 340B (N396AE), Lawton, OK, Minor damage. Narrative: on February 22, 1998, at 1021 central standard time, a Saab 340B transport airplane, N396AE, operated by simmons airlines, inc., as American eagle…

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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