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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Swearingen SA-227 · Tuscaloosa, AL · March 16, 2022

Date: March 16, 2022 · 14:00 local
Place: Tuscaloosa, AL
Airport: City Of Tuscaloosa
Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
Operator: 4D3F
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: NONE
Reported as: Swearingen SA-227
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificates: Airline transport, unknown or foreign certificate
Pilot’s flight hours: 11,800 total700 in this make and model

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.

When captain privacy data omitted landed on runway 22 at Tuscaloosa, he applied reverse on both engines as a normal procedure to stop the aircraft, the aircraft slowly started to go to the right, when he tried to center the aircraft to the center of the runway he misjudged the wide of the runway and the right main landing gear was in the grass. He stopped the aircraft on the right side just off of the runway, he reported to the control tower the situation and had a tug to remove the airplane from the grass.

As the FAA filed it

WHEN CAPTAIN ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ LANDED ON RUNWAY 22 AT TUSCALOOSA, HE APPLIED REVERSE ON BOTH ENGINES AS A NORMAL PROCEDURE TO STOP THE AIRCRAFT, THE AIRCRAFT SLOWLY STARTED TO GO TO THE RIGHT, WHEN HE TRIED TO CENTER THE AIRCRAFT TO THE CENTER OF THE RUNWAY HE MISJUDGED THE WIDE OF THE RUNWAY AND THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR WAS IN THE GRASS. HE STOPPED THE AIRCRAFT ON THE RIGHT SIDE JUST OFF OF THE RUNWAY, HE REPORTED TO THE CONTROL TOWER THE SITUATION AND HAD A TUG TO REMOVE THE AIRPLANE FROM THE GRASS.