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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA60601P · Saluda, VA · September 30, 2000

Date
September 30, 2000 · 12:10 local
Place
Saluda, VA
Airport
Hummel Field Airport
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6ZR
Reported as
Piper PA60601P
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,400 total185 in this make and model30 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.

(-23) Pilot retracted the landing gear while the aircraft was still on the takeoff roll. The aircraft landing gear retracted causing the nose to dip down on the runway, and the aircraft skidded on its belly off of the end of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT RETRACTED THE LANDING GEAR WHILE THE AIRCRAFT WAS STILL ON THE TAKEOFF ROLL. THE AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR RETRACTED CAUSING THE NOSE TO DIP DOWN ON THE RUNWAY, AND THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED ON ITS BELLY OFF OF THE END OF THE RUNWAY.