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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31T · Morrisville, NC · October 19, 2011

Date
October 19, 2011 · 03:55 local
Place
Morrisville, NC
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N154CA
Reported as
Piper PA-31T
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
4,300 total700 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.

Pilot stated he got distracted with the taxi clearance and where he wanted to go on the field and taxied off the runway and struck a runway light that colapsed the nose gear. Both propellors then struck the ground.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STATED HE GOT DISTRACTED WITH THE TAXI CLEARANCE AND WHERE HE WANTED TO GO ON THE FIELD AND TAXIED OFF THE RUNWAY AND STRUCK A RUNWAY LIGHT THAT COLAPSED THE NOSE GEAR. BOTH PROPELLORS THEN STRUCK THE GROUND.