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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Argue Floyd FLOYD ARGUE · Dowagiac, MI · February 4, 2010

Date
February 4, 2010 · 14:00 local
Place
Dowagiac, MI
Airport
Dowagian Municipal
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N46320
Reported as
Argue Floyd Floyd Argue
Reported engine
Holbrook & Israel 602
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
32 total32 in this make and model0 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.

Pilot reported that he was taxiing too fast and weathervaned into the wind causing the aircraft propeller to strike runway edge snowbank. Very minor damage was limited to the propeller.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT REPORTED THAT HE WAS TAXIING TOO FAST AND WEATHERVANED INTO THE WIND CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT PROPELLER TO STRIKE RUNWAY EDGE SNOWBANK. VERY MINOR DAMAGE WAS LIMITED TO THE PROPELLER.