# Incident 20180331014699I: Piper PA-23-250, Provo, UT, March 31, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 31, 2018, 10:17 local time
- Place: Provo, UT
- Airport: Provo Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Departure Roll
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.2192° N, 111.7234° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PROVO MUNI (PVU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.2192&lon=-111.7234&mi=10
- Aircraft: N54FF, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N54FF-2020-01-03) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-23-250 (registry code 7102308, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-23-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-23-250
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 14,000 total, 25 in this make and model, 250 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180331014699I

## Narrative

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

ON 03/31/2018 AT 1017 MST, N54FF, A STANDARD CATEGORY PA-23-250 WAS ON TAKEOFF ROLL AT PVU.  AT ROTATION SPEED, THE PILOT REPORTED HEARING A LOUD BANG, SAW SOMETHING FLY UP FROM THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT, FOLLOWED BY SKIDDING ALONG THE RUNWAY ON THE NOSE.  THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST FURTHER DOWN RUNWAY 13 AT TAXIWAY A2.  THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED AND BOTH PROPELLERS STRUCK THE GROUND.  PARTS OF THE RIGHT PROPELLER SEPARATED, ENTERED THE BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT AND EXITED THROUGH THE TOP OF THE NOSE.  THERE WERE NO INJURIES.

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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