# Incident 20110108000169I: Piper Aircr PA 46-350P, Dfw Airport, TX, January 8, 2011

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 8, 2011, 08:18 local time
- Place: Dfw Airport, TX
- Airport: Dallas Ft Worth
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.8972° N, 97.0377° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTL (DFW), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.8972&lon=-97.0377&mi=10
- Aircraft: N534P, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N534P-2011-11-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA 46-350P (registry code 7104619, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-46-350p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER AIRCR PA 46-350P
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 452 total, 55 in this make and model, 8 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20110108000169I

## Narrative

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

PILOT INADVERTANTLY TAXIIED INTO TWO  SIGN POSTS, DAMAGING BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE WING DEICE BOOTS. PILOT WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH DFW AIRPORT AND HAD REQUESTED PROGRESSIVE TAXI INSTRUCTONS. PILOT WAS GIVEN TAXI INSTRUCTIONS TO TURN RIGHT ON TAXIWAY J, AND HOLD SHORT OF TAXIWAY Y. PILOT INADVERTANTLY TURNED ONTO A VEHICLE ONLY SERVICE ROAD, WHICH LIES JUST BEFORE TAXIWAY J. AIRCRAFT HIT THE BACK OF A YIELD SIGN WITH THE LEFT WING, AND CONTINUED DOWN THE SERVICE VEHICLE ROAD CLIPPING THE RIGHT WING WITH ANOTHER YIELD SIGN, DAMAGING THE LEFT AND RIGHT DEICE BOOTS.

## Other reports on N534P (1)

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

- [Accident 20111124026209A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20111124026209A), Nov 24, 2011: Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P (N534P), Destroyed. Aircraft was at cruise flight level at FL270 when engine lost power and began to vibrate. Smoke came out of the engine cowling. PIC shut down engine and ditch…

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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