# Incident 20220316022909I: Swearingen SA-227, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 16, 2022

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 16, 2022, 14:00 local time
- Place: Tuscaloosa, AL
- Airport: City Of Tuscaloosa
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: 4D3F
- Location: 33.2098° N, 87.5692° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Tuscaloosa, AL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.2098&lon=-87.5692&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: SWEARINGEN SA-227
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, unknown or foreign certificate
- Pilot flight hours: 11,800 total, 700 in this make and model
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20220316022909I

## Narrative

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

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.

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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