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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5A · Greenfield, IN · August 26, 1978

Date
August 26, 1978 · 15:40 local
Place
Greenfield, IN
Airport
Pope
Phase of flight
To Aborted (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9735U
Reported as
Gulstm AA5A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,778 total70 in this make and model0 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 attempted takeoff from grass runway which was wet and had tall grass on hot day.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF FROM GRASS RUNWAY WHICH WAS WET AND HAD TALL GRASS ON HOT DAY.