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Event ERA21LA227

2021-05-01 Charleston, South Carolina, United States Airport · JZI None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N803SC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560

Year of manufacture

1995 · 26 years old at event

Engine

P&W CANADA JT15D 5 SER

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19951002

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAEE95

Registrant of record

STROM LAW FIRM LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

The airplane's impact with a deer during takeoff.

Factual narrative

The pilot reported that, during takeoff, the airplane collided with two deer just after rotation. He continued the climbout and assessed that the flight controls functioned normally, but that the airplane was having issues with pressurization, and he was unable to communicate via radio. He eventually was able to contact air traffic control via mobile phone to coordinate their arrival at the destination and landed there uneventfully. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that it had sustained substantial damage to the right wing and its pressure vessel during the collision with the deer. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database Retrieved: 2026-02-12

NTSB Findings

Hierarchical cause / factor breakdown from the FAA bulk avdata database. Each finding tagged C (Cause) or F (Factor).

  • Environmental issues-Physical environment-Object/animal/substance-Animal(s)/bird(s)-Effect on equipment

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2021_ERA21LA227.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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