diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index fdbce5af266879..0fd027a00d753b 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -376,10 +376,8 @@ function socketCloseListener() {
   // Too bad.  That output wasn't getting written.
   // This is pretty terrible that it doesn't raise an error.
   // Fixed better in v0.10
-  if (req.output)
-    req.output.length = 0;
-  if (req.outputEncodings)
-    req.outputEncodings.length = 0;
+  if (req.outputData)
+    req.outputData.length = 0;
 
   if (parser) {
     parser.finish();
diff --git a/lib/_http_outgoing.js b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
index 667d07801c6497..671a1477d8be1a 100644
--- a/lib/_http_outgoing.js
+++ b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ function OutgoingMessage() {
 
   // Queue that holds all currently pending data, until the response will be
   // assigned to the socket (until it will its turn in the HTTP pipeline).
-  this.output = [];
-  this.outputEncodings = [];
-  this.outputCallbacks = [];
+  this.outputData = [];
 
   // `outputSize` is an approximate measure of how much data is queued on this
   // response. `_onPendingData` will be invoked to update similar global
@@ -219,14 +217,18 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype._send = function _send(data, encoding, callback) {
       data = this._header + data;
     } else {
       var header = this._header;
-      if (this.output.length === 0) {
-        this.output = [header];
-        this.outputEncodings = ['latin1'];
-        this.outputCallbacks = [null];
+      if (this.outputData.length === 0) {
+        this.outputData = [{
+          data: header,
+          encoding: 'latin1',
+          callback: null
+        }];
       } else {
-        this.output.unshift(header);
-        this.outputEncodings.unshift('latin1');
-        this.outputCallbacks.unshift(null);
+        this.outputData.unshift({
+          data: header,
+          encoding: 'latin1',
+          callback: null
+        });
       }
       this.outputSize += header.length;
       this._onPendingData(header.length);
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@ function _writeRaw(data, encoding, callback) {
 
   if (conn && conn._httpMessage === this && conn.writable && !conn.destroyed) {
     // There might be pending data in the this.output buffer.
-    if (this.output.length) {
+    if (this.outputData.length) {
       this._flushOutput(conn);
     } else if (!data.length) {
       if (typeof callback === 'function') {
@@ -272,9 +274,7 @@ function _writeRaw(data, encoding, callback) {
     return conn.write(data, encoding, callback);
   }
   // Buffer, as long as we're not destroyed.
-  this.output.push(data);
-  this.outputEncodings.push(encoding);
-  this.outputCallbacks.push(callback);
+  this.outputData.push({ data, encoding, callback });
   this.outputSize += data.length;
   this._onPendingData(data.length);
   return false;
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype.end = function end(chunk, encoding, callback) {
   // There is the first message on the outgoing queue, and we've sent
   // everything to the socket.
   debug('outgoing message end.');
-  if (this.output.length === 0 &&
+  if (this.outputData.length === 0 &&
       this.connection &&
       this.connection._httpMessage === this) {
     this._finish();
@@ -792,22 +792,19 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype._flush = function _flush() {
 
 OutgoingMessage.prototype._flushOutput = function _flushOutput(socket) {
   var ret;
-  var outputLength = this.output.length;
+  var outputLength = this.outputData.length;
   if (outputLength <= 0)
     return ret;
 
-  var output = this.output;
-  var outputEncodings = this.outputEncodings;
-  var outputCallbacks = this.outputCallbacks;
+  var outputData = this.outputData;
   socket.cork();
   for (var i = 0; i < outputLength; i++) {
-    ret = socket.write(output[i], outputEncodings[i], outputCallbacks[i]);
+    const { data, encoding, callback } = outputData[i];
+    ret = socket.write(data, encoding, callback);
   }
   socket.uncork();
 
-  this.output = [];
-  this.outputEncodings = [];
-  this.outputCallbacks = [];
+  this.outputData = [];
   this._onPendingData(-this.outputSize);
   this.outputSize = 0;
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-destroyed-socket-write2.js b/test/parallel/test-http-destroyed-socket-write2.js
index 48899415e37a4f..551cea19829d93 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-http-destroyed-socket-write2.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-destroyed-socket-write2.js
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ server.listen(0, function() {
     }
 
 
-    assert.strictEqual(req.output.length, 0);
-    assert.strictEqual(req.outputEncodings.length, 0);
+    assert.strictEqual(req.outputData.length, 0);
     server.close();
   }));