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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Danville, VA · November 9, 2014

Date
November 9, 2014 · 16:30 local
Place
Danville, VA
Phase of flight
Ground/Ramp/Ma
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N55730
Reported as
Piper PA-28-140
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
44 total44 in this make and model5 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 attempting to attach tow bar to nose wheel of airplane to tow airplane into hangar. Moving propeller to attach tow bar and propeller started to rotate. Airplane struck hangar door.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING TO ATTACH TOW BAR TO NOSE WHEEL OF AIRPLANE TO TOW AIRPLANE INTO HANGAR. MOVING PROPELLER TO ATTACH TOW BAR AND PROPELLER STARTED TO ROTATE. AIRPLANE STRUCK HANGAR DOOR.