# Incident 20000125000039I: Swrngn SA226TC, Salt Lake City, UT, January 25, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 25, 2000, 21:20 local time
- Place: Salt Lake City, UT
- Airport: Salt Lake City International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: QTVA
- Location: 40.7884° N, 111.9778° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SALT LAKE CITY INTL (SLC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.7884&lon=-111.9778&mi=10
- Aircraft: N159WA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N159WA-2018-01-11) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Fairchild SA226-TC (registry code 3377511, https://openairdocs.org/model/fairchild-sa226-tc) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: AiResearch TPE331 series (registry code 01514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/airesearch-tpe331-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: SWRNGN SA226TC
- Reported engine: GARRTT TPE33110UA
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,750 total, 200 in this make and model, 200 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000125000039I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) INM0720000016  ON 01-25-2000, AT APPROXIMATELY 2120 MST, N159WA, A FAIRCHILD SA226TC, PILOTED BY MR. MICHAEL JACKSON CERTIFICATE 564027934, OPERATED BY WESTERN AIR EXPRESS (QTVA), LANDED ON RUNWAY 34.  THE AIRCRAFT TURNED ON TAXI WAY Q EASTBOUND.  SHORTLY AFTER ENTERING TAXI WAY Q THE PILOT STATED HE WAS CONFUSED AND COULDN'T SEE THE TAXI WAY CLEARLY.  THE SIC, DAMON IRONS, CALLED OUT THE RIGHT GEAR WAS IN THE DIRT, A SLIGHT SOUND WAS HEARD AND THE PIC, MICHAEL JACKSON, STEERED THE AIRCRAFT BACK ON TAXI WAY Q.  THE AIRCRAFT TAXIED TO HUDSON GENERAL WHERE DAMAGE TO THE PROPELLER WAS DISCOVERED.  THE PIC CONTACTED WESTERN AIR EXPRESS CHIEF PILOT T.C. GILKISON WHOM HE THOUGHT WOULD HANDLE THE INCIDENT.  NEITHER THE FAA NOR THE SALT LAKE CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS NOTIFIED.  AN INVESTIGATION THE FOLLOWING DAY REVEALED THAT A RUNWAY LIGHT AND PLASTIC DELINEATOR (SNOW REMOVAL MARKER) HAD BEEN DESTROYED.  THE OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SLC ASOS SHOWED THE VISIBILITY AT 1/2 MILE, FOG, PATCHED OF FOG, AND MIST.  THE PIC STATED THE RUNWAY WAS DRY.

## Other reports on N159WA (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19990317002399I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990317002399I), Mar 17, 1999: Swrngn SA226TC (N159WA), Boise, ID, Minor damage. Western air express air taxi struck a bird on take-off and sustained substantial damage to the #1 engine, the acft returned to the arpt and landed without…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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