# Incident 20140822016919I: Cessna 172S, Fairfield, NJ, August 22, 2014

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 22, 2014, 18:08 local time
- Place: Fairfield, NJ
- Airport: Essex County Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Rotation
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.8752° N, 74.2814° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ESSEX COUNTY (CDW), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.8752&lon=-74.2814&mi=10
- Aircraft: N272LP, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N272LP) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172S (registry code 2072439, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172s) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-360-L2A (registry code 41597, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-l2a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172S
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-360-L2A
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 81 total, 79 in this make and model, 23 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140822016919I

## Narrative

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

ON AUGUST 22, 2014, N272LP, A CESSNA 172S DEPARTED RUNWAY 28 AT THE CALDWELL AIRPORT.  THE AIRCRAFT REACHED 30-50 FEET WHEN THE PILOT THOUGHT THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOT PERFORMING PROPERLY AND DECIDED TO ABORT THE TAKEOFF.  THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN WITH APPROXIMATELY 650 FEET OF RUNWAY REMAINING AND RAN INTO THE GRASS.  SKID MARKS WERE APPROXIMATELY 1000 FT LONG FROM WHERE THE AIRCRAFT LANDED ON THE RUNWAY TO WERE IT STOPPED.  THE AIRCRAFT SUFFERED MINOR DAMAGE WHICH INCLUDED A DENTED STRUT FAIRING FROM HITTING A RUNWAY LIGHT AND TWO BLOWN MAIN TIRES FROM EXCESSIVE BRAKING.

THE PILOT WAS IDENTIFIED AS ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, HOLDER OF A PRIVATE PILOT CERTIFICATE,  NUMBER PENDING.  IN A STATEMENT PROVIDED TO THE FSDO, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ SAID THAT AFTER A NORMAL RUNUP, HE REQUESTED CLEARANCE FOR TAKEOFF AND STARTED TO ROLL ON RUNWAY 28.  ALL INSTRUMENTS WERE IN THE GREEN AND HE ROTATED AT 55 KIAS.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ THEN NOTED THAT THE AIRCRAFT DID NOT SEEM TO SOUND RIGHT AND WAS NOT CLIMBING AS EXPECTED.  THIS WAS JUDGED PRIMARILY BY VISUAL REFERENCE.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ THEN MADE THE DECISION TO ABORT THE TAKEOFF.  HE CUT THE THROTTLE AND PITCHED FOR THE RUNWAY.  NO FLAPS WERE APPLIED DURING THE LANDING.  HE APPLIED FULL BRAKING AND RAN OFF THE END OF RUNWAY 28.

NEITHER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OR HIS PASSENGER WERE HURT IN THE INCIDENT.

THE AIRCRAFT WAS INSPECTED BY THE FLIGHT SCHOOL'S MAINTENANCE PROVIDER.  THE AIRCRAFT'S STATIC RPM WAS VERIFIED, ENGINE COMPRESSIONS AND TIMING WERE CHECKED AND A FUEL SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM ALL FUEL DRAINS.  NO DISCREPANCIES WERE NOTED AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE.

10/30/2014 AMMENDMENT TO AIRMAN'S CERTIFICATE NUMBER. BLOCK 31A

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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