20010523008789I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 737-7H4 · Raleigh-Durham, NC · May 23, 2001

Date
May 23, 2001
Place
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Airport
Raleigh-Durham International
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
SWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N766SW
Reported as
Boeing 7377H4

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)Sometime during the night, an unmanned, uncontrolled us airways lavatory truck rolled across taxiways "g" and "h" and struck a parked southwest airlines B737 in the #2 engine cowling. Aircraft was taken out of service until cowling replacement was accomplished later that day.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)SOMETIME DURING THE NIGHT, AN UNMANNED, UNCONTROLLED US AIRWAYS LAVATORY TRUCK ROLLED ACROSS TAXIWAYS "G" AND "H" AND STRUCK A PARKED SOUTHWEST AIRLINES B737 IN THE #2 ENGINE COWLING. AIRCRAFT WAS TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE UNTIL COWLING REPLACEMENT WAS ACCOMPLISHED LATER THAT DAY.

Other reports on N766SW · 1

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