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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20 · Englewood, CO · August 1, 1978

Date
August 1, 1978 · 21:12 local
Place
Englewood, CO
Airport
Arapahoe Co
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6503B
Reported as
Mooney M20
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,500 total15 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

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.

Pilot did not properly engage manually gear extension handle for landing. Handle popped from socket, gear retracted

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DID NOT PROPERLY ENGAGE MANUALLY GEAR EXTENSION HANDLE FOR LANDING. HANDLE POPPED FROM SOCKET, GEAR RETRACTED

Other reports on N6503B · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.