Trans Colorado Airlines Swearingen SA227-AC incident
Swearingen SA227-AC · Incident: on ground/water collision with object during takeoff
From Easterwood Field (CLL) to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW88IA055
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Swearingen SA227-AC
- Aircraft type
- Swearingen SA227
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N3107P
- Operator
- Trans Colorado Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Easterwood Field (CLL), College Station, TXTo George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff · roll/run
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- On ground/water collision with object
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Object › Animal(s)
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE AIRCRAFT'S NOSE GEAR STRUCK A DEER DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL AND THE TAKEOFF WAS ABORTED. THE AIRCRAFT TAXIED BACK TO THE TERMINAL AND WAS EXAMINED BY THE FLIGHT CREW. NO DAMAGE WAS FOUND. IT THEN DEPARTED ON ITS SCHEDULED FLIGHT. IT FLEW 18 FLIGHTS DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS AND WAS THEN PLACED IN THE SHOP FOR MAINTENANCE. AT THIS TIME DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN THE NOSE WHEEL AREA.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW88IA055
- Event ID
- 20001213X24902
- Case number
- FTW88IA055
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 8933ed9e185bfd82c81aa6f025a90d65c320c8e9c3bbaf5a72b1cd9fc110a3fc; retrieved 2026-09-18T19:29:53.633Z.