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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150 · Grapevine, AZ · August 28, 1978

Date
August 28, 1978 · 11:00 local
Place
Grapevine, AZ
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N60050
Reported as
Cessna 150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
550 total210 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 was attempting to push and turn aircraft around for taxi. Rolled backwards into ravine.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUSH AND TURN AIRCRAFT AROUND FOR TAXI. ROLLED BACKWARDS INTO RAVINE.