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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · AMD FALCON 2000 · Tucson, AZ · June 8, 2004

Date
June 8, 2004 · 11:00 local
Place
Tucson, AZ
Airport
Tucson International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N207EM
Reported as
AMD FALCON2000
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,985 total200 in this make and model94 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) Pilot was taxiing into the U.S. Customs area and it requires a turn of close to 180 deg. To pull up in front of the building. There is a wall around the outside of the ramp area and they just got too close to the wall and scraped it with the left wing. The airplane required the replacement of the left wingtip only.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT WAS TAXIING INTO THE U.S. CUSTOMS AREA AND IT REQUIRES A TURN OF CLOSE TO 180 DEG. TO PULL UP IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING. THERE IS A WALL AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE RAMP AREA AND THEY JUST GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE WALL AND SCRAPED IT WITH THE LEFT WING. THE AIRPLANE REQUIRED THE REPLACEMENT OF THE LEFT WINGTIP ONLY.