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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-38-112 · Middletown, NY · August 23, 1997

Date
August 23, 1997 · 10:30 local
Place
Middletown, NY
Airport
Randall Airport
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6368A
Reported as
Piper PA38112
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
235 total54 in this make and model54 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.

Narrative: pilot attempted take off downwind on the turf runway 04 at Randall Airport, Middletown, NY pilot had aircraft enter higher grass area to the left of the runway. Aircraft ran into the trees off the end of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT ATTEMPTED TAKE OFF DOWNWIND ON THE TURF RUNWAY 04 AT RANDALL AIRPORT, MIDDLETOWN, NY PILOT HAD AIRCRAFT ENTER HIGHER GRASS AREA TO THE LEFT OF THE RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT RAN INTO THE TREES OFF THE END OF THE RUNWAY.