# Incident 20010620021769I: Cessna 560XL, Charlottesville, VA, June 20, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 20, 2001, 07:30 local time
- Place: Charlottesville, VA
- Airport: Charlottesville-Albemarle
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: NOZA
- Location: 38.1396° N, 78.4523° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE (CHO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.1396&lon=-78.4523&mi=10
- Aircraft: N24NG (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 560XL
- People aboard: 7
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,100 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010620021769I

## Narrative

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

(-23) IMMMEDIATELY AFTER ROTATION, THE CREW HEARD AND FELT A NOISE (CLUNK), WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A VERY MILD VIBRATION. THE CREW CHOSE TO CONTINUE TO THEIR DESTINATION, WHICH WAS 20 MINUTES AWAY. DURING THE APPROACH, WHEN SELECTING 15 DEG. FLAPS, ANOTHER SOUND (CLUNK) WAS HEARD AND FELT, FOLLOWED BY THE CESSATION OF THE MILD BUFFET. THE LANDING WAS UNEVENTFUL, BUT THE POST FLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED MISSING UPPER AND LOWER COWLING HALVES ON THE LEFT ENGINE, AND IMPACT DAMAGE TO THE LOWER SURFACE OF THE LEFT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER. AN INSPECTION OF A RECOVERED PIECE OF COWLING FROM THE BWI DEPARTURE RUNWAY INDICATED THAT THE COWLING HAD FAILED DUE TO DELAMINATION. INVESTIGATIONS BY THE BWI FSDO AND THE CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY CONTINUE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE TRUE CAUSE OF THE COWLING SEPARATION.

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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