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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Hummel, VA · March 11, 1979

Date
March 11, 1979 · 19:00 local
Place
Hummel, VA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N7824U
Reported as
Mooney M20E
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
620 total35 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 bounced hard on attempted landing, aborted and flew to another airport. Props and nose gear were damaged.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT BOUNCED HARD ON ATTEMPTED LANDING, ABORTED AND FLEW TO ANOTHER AIRPORT. PROPS AND NOSE GEAR WERE DAMAGED.