ANC08WA014 · Piper PA-34
Piper PA-34 · Accident
From Vancouver International Airport (CYVR) to Pitt Meadows
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's injuries and registration. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC08WA014
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Piper PA-34
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-34
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- C-GHFD Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Peter Garrison
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Vancouver International Airport (CYVR), VancouverTo Pitt Meadows
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 19, 2007, about 1603, pacific daylight time, a Piper PA-34 airplane, Canadian registration C-GHFD, was destroyed when it collided with a building during takeoff initial climb from the Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The flight was conducted under the provisions of the Civil Aviation Regulations of Canada. The pilot received fatal injuries, and two occupants of the building received serious injuries.
This report is for information purposes only. The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, and contains only the information released by, or obtained from the Government of Canada. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada Place du Centre 200 Promenade du Portage, 4th Floor Quebec K1A 1K8 Canada (819) 994-4252
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC08WA014
- Event ID
- 20080215X00198
- Case number
- ANC08WA014
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b066e8793d431c8f5accfd03907e49ad61a7ce38901d16c7121835530374ac46; retrieved 2026-09-20T16:11:03.920Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: registration. The narrative states "a Piper PA-34 airplane, Canadian registration C-GHFD, was destroyed when it collided with a building".