20120327005469I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Gila Bend, AZ · March 27, 2012

Date
March 27, 2012 · 10:00 local
Place
Gila Bend, AZ
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N918PA
Reported as
Piper PA-28-181
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 SER A&C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
52 total52 in this make and model52 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 taxi to parking, airman mis-judged distance to diesel fuel tank. Wing tip scraped tank causing minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TAXI TO PARKING, AIRMAN MIS-JUDGED DISTANCE TO DIESEL FUEL TANK. WING TIP SCRAPED TANK CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE.

Other reports on N918PA · 1

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