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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 400 · Denver, CO · November 21, 2009

Date: November 21, 2009 · 19:30 local
Place: Denver, CO
Airport: Front Range
Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N520WS
Reported as: Beech 400
Reported engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D 5 series
People aboard: 10
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificate: Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours: 5,000 total3,000 in this make and model63 in the last 90 days

N520WSRegistered now · Beech 400S/N RJ-53 · Built 1988 Airframe modelBeech 400 Engine modelPratt & Whitney Canada JT15D 5 seriesTurbo-fan

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.

Pilot departed runway 8 at ftg. Upon gear retraction, he experienced difficulty maintaining wings level flight. He elected to make an emergency landing on runway 35 at ftg. After touching down in the threshold area of runway 35, he used the entire runway (8000 feet) and rolled off the end, coming to a stop about 200 feet beyond the departure end. The brakes were on fire and the crew and passengers successfully egressed the aircraft at that time. There were no injuries, and the crew extinguished the fire with a hand-held fire extinguisher.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DEPARTED RUNWAY 8 AT FTG. UPON GEAR RETRACTION, HE EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTY MAINTAINING WINGS LEVEL FLIGHT. HE ELECTED TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING ON RUNWAY 35 AT FTG. AFTER TOUCHING DOWN IN THE THRESHOLD AREA OF RUNWAY 35, HE USED THE ENTIRE RUNWAY (8000 FEET) AND ROLLED OFF THE END, COMING TO A STOP ABOUT 200 FEET BEYOND THE DEPARTURE END. THE BRAKES WERE ON FIRE AND THE CREW AND PASSENGERS SUCCESSFULLY EGRESSED THE AIRCRAFT AT THAT TIME. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, AND THE CREW EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE WITH A HAND-HELD FIRE EXTINGUISHER.