# Incident 20221102013499I: Piper PA-28-161, Merritt Island, FL, November 2, 2022

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 2, 2022, 10:05 local time
- Place: Merritt Island, FL
- Airport: Merritt Island
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Departure Roll
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Operator: E7XS
- Location: 28.3416° N, 80.6855° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MERRITT ISLAND (COI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=28.3416&lon=-80.6855&mi=10
- Aircraft: N510X, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N510X-2025-06-07) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-161 (registry code 7102803, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-28-161
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20221102013499I

## Narrative

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

11-02-2022 PILOT WAS ABOUT TO PERFORM 3RD SOLO FLIGHT. DID THE PREFLIGHT AT 9AM AND IT WAS RECHECKED UNDER INSTRUCTOR SUPERVISION. SUCCESSFUL RUN-UP WAS PERFORMED,

HIS FIRST PATTERN FOR THE DAY WENT FINE AND HE EXACUTED A FULL STOP TAXI BACK. AND AGAIN RETURNED TO HOLD SHORT AT RWY 11 TO DO THE PATTERN AGAIN. AFTER 1 TO 2 MINUTES HE STARTED TAKING OFF, AND EVERYTHING WAS GOING GOOD, HE THEN GAVE FULL THROTTLE AND HE SAID HIS ASI WAS A LITTLE ABOVE 40KTS, HE WAS GOING MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO ROTATE BUT BEFORE ROTATING, HE SUDDENLY FELT THE LEFT WING COME DOWN HARD AND MADE THE AIRCRAFT GO OFF CENTER LINE TOWARDS THE LEFT OF RWY 11. HE STARTED TO COMPENSATE RIGHT RUDDER HARD BUT IS SPEED WAS HIGH AND DIDN’T HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME TO RIGHT THE AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT WENT OFF THE RWY AND VEERED INTO THE GRASS. AS SOON AS HE GAINED HIS BEARING HE SECURED AIRCRAFT AND REMOVED THE KEY.

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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