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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Pilatus PC-12/45 · Centennial, CO · October 17, 2016

Date: October 17, 2016 · 11:21 local
Place: Centennial, CO
Airport: Centennial Airport
Phase of flight: Descent
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: No damage
Aircraft: N328SF
Reported as: Pilatus PC12-45
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 1
Pilot’s certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,000 total500 in this make and model120 in the last 90 days

N328SFRegistered now · Pilatus PC-12/45S/N 269 · Built 1999 Airframe modelPilatus PC-12/45 Engine modelPratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

N328SF was on arrival into kapa when it encountered severe turbulence. Pilot hit his head on sun visor and had a minor cut.

As the FAA filed it

N328SF WAS ON ARRIVAL INTO KAPA WHEN IT ENCOUNTERED SEVERE TURBULENCE. PILOT HIT HIS HEAD ON SUN VISOR AND HAD A MINOR CUT.