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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Tomball, TX · January 20, 1979

Date
January 20, 1979 · 12:30 local
Place
Tomball, TX
Airport
D W Hooks
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6201
Reported as
Mooney M20J
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,500 total6 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.

Plane lifted off prematurely then settled back onto runway very hard.

As the FAA filed it

PLANE LIFTED OFF PREMATURELY THEN SETTLED BACK ONTO RUNWAY VERY HARD.