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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172M · Grand Canyon, AZ · January 20, 1987

Date: January 20, 1987 · 16:25 local
Place: Grand Canyon, AZ
Airport: Grand Canyon National Park
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N13479
Reported as: Cessna 172M
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,400 total700 in this make and model30 in the last 90 days

N13479Registered now · Cessna 172MS/N 17262781 · Built 1973 Airframe modelCessna 172M Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

Aircraft slid on icy ramp surface and the wingtip struck a portable deicing rig.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT SLID ON ICY RAMP SURFACE AND THE WINGTIP STRUCK A PORTABLE DEICING RIG.