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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Eastman, GA · December 11, 2025

Date
December 11, 2025 · 20:00 local
Place
Eastman, GA
Airport
Bacon County
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Rotation
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Operator
HG6S
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N251MG
Reported as
Piper PA-28-181
Reported engine
Lycoming O-360-A4M
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0

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.

At night, during rotation from a touch and go landing, a deer ran under privacy data omitted and damaged the wire portion of the communication antenna located under the aircraft. The pilot had sufficient distance on runway 34 to land straight ahead with no further incident.

As the FAA filed it

AT NIGHT, DURING ROTATION FROM A TOUCH AND GO LANDING, A DEER RAN UNDER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ AND DAMAGED THE WIRE PORTION OF THE COMMUNICATION ANTENNA LOCATED UNDER THE AIRCRAFT. THE PILOT HAD SUFFICIENT DISTANCE ON RUNWAY 34 TO LAND STRAIGHT AHEAD WITH NO FURTHER INCIDENT.