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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28R-180 · Springfield, MO · July 12, 2019

Date
July 12, 2019 · 09:25 local
Place
Springfield, MO
Airport
Springfield-Branson National
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3968T
Reported as
Piper PA-28R-180
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
821 total271 in this make and model6 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 taxied north from parking area to runway 20 via taxiway November. While travelling between several long-term storage aircraft to the east and several ga aircraft to the west, he struck the spinner of a parked ga aircraft with his left wingtip causing minor damage to his aircraft and minor damage to the spinner of the parked aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIED NORTH FROM PARKING AREA TO RUNWAY 20 VIA TAXIWAY NOVEMBER. WHILE TRAVELLING BETWEEN SEVERAL LONG-TERM STORAGE AIRCRAFT TO THE EAST AND SEVERAL GA AIRCRAFT TO THE WEST, HE STRUCK THE SPINNER OF A PARKED GA AIRCRAFT WITH HIS LEFT WINGTIP CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO HIS AIRCRAFT AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE SPINNER OF THE PARKED AIRCRAFT.