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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Martinsville, VA · March 26, 2008

Date
March 26, 2008 · 12:30 local
Place
Martinsville, VA
Airport
Blue Ridge
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8097S
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
82 total8 in this make and model25 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 going to taxi to the ramp. Pilot went to park on a parking "t" and the right wing struck the fence post.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT WAS GOING TO TAXI TO THE RAMP. PILOT WENT TO PARK ON A PARKING "T" AND THE RIGHT WING STRUCK THE FENCE POST.

Other reports on N8097S · 2

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