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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · Westerly, RI · July 13, 2015

Date
July 13, 2015 · 09:30 local
Place
Westerly, RI
Airport
Westerly State Airport
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Rotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1597X
Reported as
Piper PA-34-200T
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
3,945 total800 in this make and model1 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.

The pilot retracted landing gear as wheels left the runway. The aircraft then settled back down to the runway and slid to a stop off the left side of runway 25 approx 3/4 down the 4000 foot runway.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT RETRACTED LANDING GEAR AS WHEELS LEFT THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT THEN SETTLED BACK DOWN TO THE RUNWAY AND SLID TO A STOP OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF RUNWAY 25 APPROX 3/4 DOWN THE 4000 FOOT RUNWAY.