19781212024859I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20 · Marion, AL · December 12, 1978

Date
December 12, 1978 · 16:30 local
Place
Marion, AL
Airport
Perry Co
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N201PX
Reported as
Mooney M20
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total25 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.

On landing rollout, pilot inadvertently retracted landing gear instead of flaps.

As the FAA filed it

ON LANDING ROLLOUT, PILOT INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED LANDING GEAR INSTEAD OF FLAPS.