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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Pilatus PC-12/45 · Burlington, NC · August 14, 2014

Date
August 14, 2014 · 04:30 local
Place
Burlington, NC
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
LABJ
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N373KM
Reported as
Pilatus PC-12/45
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
15,699 total3,859 in this make and model186 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.

Aircraft was on departure roll when a deer croseed in the path of the plane. Deer was struck by the left main landing gear door. Door was ripped from the mount fittings which ruptured the left main fuel tank in the left main landing gear well. Aircraft taxied from runway to labcorp hangar area where the fuel spill was noticed.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT WAS ON DEPARTURE ROLL WHEN A DEER CROSEED IN THE PATH OF THE PLANE. DEER WAS STRUCK BY THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR DOOR. DOOR WAS RIPPED FROM THE MOUNT FITTINGS WHICH RUPTURED THE LEFT MAIN FUEL TANK IN THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR WELL. AIRCRAFT TAXIED FROM RUNWAY TO LABCORP HANGAR AREA WHERE THE FUEL SPILL WAS NOTICED.