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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172R · Groton - New Lo, CT · April 30, 2001

Date
April 30, 2001 · 14:30 local
Place
Groton - New Lo, CT
Airport
Groton-New London
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N987CP
Reported as
Cessna 172R
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,700 total600 in this make and model20 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.

(-23)privacy data omitted taxied N987CP to the tiedown ramp. This is a temporary parking area while there was construction on the regular parking ramp. Since the parking was tight he was watching his wing when the horizontal stabilizer slid under the BE-77'S wing and damaged the pitot tube.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)^PRIVACY DAT^ TAXIED N987CP TO THE TIEDOWN RAMP. THIS IS A TEMPORARY PARKING AREA WHILE THERE WAS CONSTRUCTION ON THE REGULAR PARKING RAMP. SINCE THE PARKING WAS TIGHT HE WAS WATCHING HIS WING WHEN THE HORIZONTAL STABILIZER SLID UNDER THE BE-77'S WING AND DAMAGED THE PITOT TUBE.