20041215033289I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Sparta, TN · December 15, 2004

Date
December 15, 2004 · 14:45 local
Place
Sparta, TN
Airport
Sparta-White County Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7063C
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E3D
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,200 total

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) After landing aircraft taxiing down runway approximately 2000', then veered to the right and ran off runway into grass infield, between runway and taxiway. Aircraft jumped ditch and underbelly of aft fuselage hit cement abutment to culvert at start of ditch.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AFTER LANDING AIRCRAFT TAXIING DOWN RUNWAY APPROXIMATELY 2000', THEN VEERED TO THE RIGHT AND RAN OFF RUNWAY INTO GRASS INFIELD, BETWEEN RUNWAY AND TAXIWAY. AIRCRAFT JUMPED DITCH AND UNDERBELLY OF AFT FUSELAGE HIT CEMENT ABUTMENT TO CULVERT AT START OF DITCH.