Aircraft and Incident Details
The aircraft involved in this incident is a Britten-Norman BN2B-20 Islander, registration G-SICA. The event occurred on 16 January 2013 at 1007 UTC at Lerwick/Tingwall Airport. The runway surface at the time was untreated and contaminated with ice.
Incident Description
According to the corrected AAIB bulletin, as the takeoff roll began, the aircraft started an uncontrollable drift. The correction states that this drift was to the right. The initial report in AAIB Bulletin No 6/2013 had erroneously described a left drift. The corrected text in AAIB Bulletin 7/2013, reference EW/G2013/01/08, aligns the direction of drift to the right.
Correction Bulletin
The correction amends both the synopsis and the first sentence of the second paragraph in the history of the flight. The synopsis originally read: "At the beginning of the takeoff roll, on an untreated runway surface contaminated with ice, the aircraft started an uncontrollable drift to the left." It was corrected to state "drift to the right." Similarly, the history of the flight paragraph was corrected from "the aircraft started to veer to the left" to "the aircraft started to veer to the right."
Additional Information
No further details about the outcome of the incident, such as injuries or damage, are provided in the correction. The AAIB bulletin serves solely to rectify the factual error regarding the direction of drift.