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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E-55 · Ft Lauderdale, FL · September 11, 2019

Date
September 11, 2019 · 08:56 local
Place
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Airport
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4492F
Reported as
Beech E-55
Reported engine
Continental IO-520 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
11,350 total4,700 in this make and model90 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.

During takeoff roll just before rotation the nose gear collapsed. The nose then bounced back up and the aircraft became airborne momentarily at which time the pilot decided to retract the gear and land on the belly

As the FAA filed it

DURING TAKEOFF ROLL JUST BEFORE ROTATION THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE NOSE THEN BOUNCED BACK UP AND THE AIRCRAFT BECAME AIRBORNE MOMENTARILY AT WHICH TIME THE PILOT DECIDED TO RETRACT THE GEAR AND LAND ON THE BELLY