19870810058139I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-22-108 · El Cajon, CA · August 10, 1987

Date
August 10, 1987 · 19:25 local
Place
El Cajon, CA
Airport
Gillespie Field Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5688Z
Reported as
Piper PA22108
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R985AN1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total700 in this make and model2 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.

Lost directional control and ground looped on landing. Had not flown aircraft for 6 years.

As the FAA filed it

LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND GROUND LOOPED ON LANDING. HAD NOT FLOWN AIRCRAFT FOR 6 YEARS.