20180118000939I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Raytheon C90A · Garden City, KS · January 18, 2018

Date
January 18, 2018 · 15:43 local
Place
Garden City, KS
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
7EMA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N400EM
Reported as
Raytheon C90A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
10,563 total2,569 in this make and model96 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.

On take-off from the airport, the pilot retracted the gear normally and then noticed fuel streaming from the area of the left wing cap. The pilot elected to reduce power and land on the remaining runway. The aircraft touched down on the runway with the gear still retracted and came to a stop on the runway. The pilot and passengers were uninjured and the aircraft received minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

ON TAKE-OFF FROM THE AIRPORT, THE PILOT RETRACTED THE GEAR NORMALLY AND THEN NOTICED FUEL STREAMING FROM THE AREA OF THE LEFT WING CAP. THE PILOT ELECTED TO REDUCE POWER AND LAND ON THE REMAINING RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN ON THE RUNWAY WITH THE GEAR STILL RETRACTED AND CAME TO A STOP ON THE RUNWAY. THE PILOT AND PASSENGERS WERE UNINJURED AND THE AIRCRAFT RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE.