# Incident 20020411012349I: Piper PA32300, Fort Worth, TX, April 11, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 11, 2002, 12:15 local time
- Place: Fort Worth, TX
- Airport: Hicks Airfield Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.7254° N, 97.3208° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fort Worth, TX, within about 11 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.7254&lon=-97.3208&mi=10
- Aircraft: N33354, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N33354-2020-05-01) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32-300 (registry code 7103212, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32300
- Pilot flight hours: 216 total, 23 in this make and model, 23 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020411012349I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON APRIL 11, 2002 AT 1215 PM CDT, A PIPER CHEROKEE PA-32-300 AIRCRAFT, N33354, OWNED BY SIX4ASIX INC. 3511 SILVERSIDE RD. STE 105 WILMINGTON, DE 19810, AND OPERATED BY PETER BROWN, COLLIDED WITH A PARKED AUTOMOBILE WHILE TAXIING TO THE HANGAR AFTER LANDING AT HICKS AIRFIELD. THE LEFT WING TIP IMPACTED THE VEHICLE AND RUPTURED THE LEFT TIP TANK AND THE WING TIP POSITION LIGHT WAS BROKEN CAUSING SPARKS AND FIRE ON THE LEFT WING. OTHER AIRPORT TENANTS CAME OUT WITH HAND HELD FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND WERE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE. THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED AFTER A PART 91 PERSONAL FLIGHT VFR FLIGHT CONDITIONS PREVAILED, NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE AND THE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED. THE PILOT HOLDS A COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, NUMBER 465299373, THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT HICKS AIRFIELD ON APRIL 11, 2002, AT 1030 AM.

## Other reports on N33354 (1)

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

- [Incident 20021124034379I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20021124034379I), Nov 24, 2002: Piper PA32300 (N33354), Roanoke, TX, Minor damage. (-23) Pilot struck a horizontal wood pole used as a parking lot boarder while taxiing, damaging the nose wheel fairing and propeller of his aircraft.

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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