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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-17 · Louisburg, NC · April 11, 2010

Date
April 11, 2010 · 18:30 local
Place
Louisburg, NC
Phase of flight
Ground/Ramp/Ma
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N4699H
NTSB investigation
NTSBERA10CA224
Reported as
Piper PA-17
Reported engine
Continental A65-8
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
1
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, private pilot, sport pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
650 total231 in this make and model9 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.

While hand-propping aircraft (tied down and chocked); tail tiedown came loose, aircraft jumped single chock and taxied unoccupied until colliding with hangar.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE HAND-PROPPING AIRCRAFT (TIED DOWN AND CHOCKED); TAIL TIEDOWN CAME LOOSE, AIRCRAFT JUMPED SINGLE CHOCK AND TAXIED UNOCCUPIED UNTIL COLLIDING WITH HANGAR.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.