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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172R · Columbia, SC · March 6, 2012

Date
March 6, 2012 · 18:30 local
Place
Columbia, SC
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N993CP
Reported as
Cessna 172R
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
675 total80 in this make and model20 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 was on taxiway charlie and was instructed to turn left onto taxiway delta . Had trouble idenifying taxiway delta and when he turned the left MLG wheel went off into the grass and the propeller struck a taxiway light. Minor damage to aircraft, no injury or fire.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ON TAXIWAY CHARLIE AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN LEFT ONTO TAXIWAY DELTA . HAD TROUBLE IDENIFYING TAXIWAY DELTA AND WHEN HE TURNED THE LEFT MLG WHEEL WENT OFF INTO THE GRASS AND THE PROPELLER STRUCK A TAXIWAY LIGHT. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT, NO INJURY OR FIRE.