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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Groton, CT · September 2, 2012

Date
September 2, 2012 · 17:00 local
Place
Groton, CT
Airport
New London Groton Airport
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Collision
Collision on the ground
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N107MR
Reported as
Piper PA-28-161
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student

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 manuvering the aircraft in a non-movement area to a tie-down position when the right wing leading edge and tip contacted a parked aircraft on the left side at the engine nacelle skin.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS MANUVERING THE AIRCRAFT IN A NON-MOVEMENT AREA TO A TIE-DOWN POSITION WHEN THE RIGHT WING LEADING EDGE AND TIP CONTACTED A PARKED AIRCRAFT ON THE LEFT SIDE AT THE ENGINE NACELLE SKIN.