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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA32300 · Grand Canyon, AZ · May 4, 1988

Date
May 4, 1988 · 11:30 local
Place
Grand Canyon, AZ
Airport
Grand Canyon National Park
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
CGJ1Q
Reported as
Piper PA32300
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
420 total40 in this make and model7 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 on landing and ground looped the aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON LANDING AND GROUND LOOPED THE AIRCRAFT.