19880603061329A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Luscom 8E · Grantsville, UT · June 3, 1988

Date
June 3, 1988 · 11:20 local
Place
Grantsville, UT
Airport
Private
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N71646
NTSB investigation
NTSBDEN88FA120
Reported as
Luscom 8E
Reported engine
Continental C9012F
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
2,876 total101 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.

Took off from a unimproived strip. Lost lift out of ground effect turned to avoid terrain caught a wing and crashed

As the FAA filed it

TOOK OFF FROM A UNIMPROIVED STRIP. LOST LIFT OUT OF GROUND EFFECT TURNED TO AVOID TERRAIN CAUGHT A WING AND CRASHED

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.