20240615006179I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172P · Hendersonville, NC · June 15, 2024

Date
June 15, 2024 · 11:45 local
Place
Hendersonville, NC
Airport
Hendersonville
Phase of flight
Ground/Ramp/Ma
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Operator
D7GS
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N99273
Reported as
Cessna 172P
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
179 total173 in this make and model48 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 departed dover afb (kdov) for a cross country training flight and landed at Hendersonville, NC (0A7). Once on the ramp the pilot was positioning the aircraft for parking when the right wing struck a vertical pole adjacent to a hangar. The aircraft sustained damage to the right wing leading edge, inboard of the wing tip.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DEPARTED DOVER AFB (KDOV) FOR A CROSS COUNTRY TRAINING FLIGHT AND LANDED AT HENDERSONVILLE, NC (0A7). ONCE ON THE RAMP THE PILOT WAS POSITIONING THE AIRCRAFT FOR PARKING WHEN THE RIGHT WING STRUCK A VERTICAL POLE ADJACENT TO A HANGAR. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED DAMAGE TO THE RIGHT WING LEADING EDGE, INBOARD OF THE WING TIP.