# Incident 20080330012979I: Piper PA31T, San Francisco, CA, March 30, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 30, 2008, 21:10 local time
- Place: San Francisco, CA
- Airport: San Francisco International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: XPCA
- Location: 37.6188° N, 122.3754° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAN FRANCISCO INTL (SFO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6188&lon=-122.3754&mi=10
- Aircraft: N111KV (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31T
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 3,250 total, 50 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080330012979I

## Narrative

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

(-23) THE PILOT LANDED THE AIRPLANE ON RUNWAY 28R AT SFO AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN RIGHT ONTO RUNWAY 1R, GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ON CHARLIE PASSING LEFT TO RIGHT, TRAFFIC IS TWO IN TRAIL, THEN TURN LEFT ON TAXIWAY CHARLIE, CROSS RUNWAY 1L AND CONTACT GROUND POINT EIGHT. 111KV WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INSTRUCTED TO TURN RIGHT ON THE NEXT TURN, TRAFFIC'S A MILE FINAL, TURN RIGHT ON RUNWAY 1L AND CONTACT GROUND. THE PILOT STATED HE HURRIED TOO MUCH AND MISTOOK THE RUNWAY EDGE LIGHTS OF RUNWAY 1L FOR CENTERLINE LIGHTS. BY THE TIME HE REALIZED HIS ERROR, IT WAS TOO LATE TO AVOID THE PROPELLER'S STRIKING A RUNWAY EDGE LIGHT. A POST-FLIGHT INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT REVEALED THERE WAS DAMAGE TO ALL THREE BLADES OF THE RIGHT PROPELLER.

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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