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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172S · Grand Forks, ND · June 4, 2012

Date
June 4, 2012 · 18:23 local
Place
Grand Forks, ND
Airport
Mark Andrews
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Operator
OG5S
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N508ND
Reported as
Cessna 172S
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-360-L2A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0

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.

Just after takeoff, in level flight, pilot was instructed to contact center ATC, at that time the GPS system failed. Student pilot returned to airport of takeoff.

As the FAA filed it

JUST AFTER TAKEOFF, IN LEVEL FLIGHT, PILOT WAS INSTRUCTED TO CONTACT CENTER ATC, AT THAT TIME THE GPS SYSTEM FAILED. STUDENT PILOT RETURNED TO AIRPORT OF TAKEOFF.