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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421C · Houston, TX · August 14, 2019

Date
August 14, 2019 · 03:30 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
West Houston Airport
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N942SW
Reported as
Cessna 421C
Reported engine
Continental GTSIO-520 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot

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.

Houston, TX (iws): N942SW, 421C, iws, departing runway 33, veered off right side of runway, passed runway 15 and crashed into a ditch. No ATC svcs.

POB: 1, injuries: none, damage: minor. 08/14/2019 1830Z

As the FAA filed it

HOUSTON, TX (IWS): N942SW, 421C, IWS, DEPARTING RUNWAY 33, VEERED OFF RIGHT SIDE OF RUNWAY, PASSED RUNWAY 15 AND CRASHED INTO A DITCH. NO ATC SVCS.

POB: 1, INJURIES: NONE, DAMAGE: MINOR. 08/14/2019 1830Z