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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Havana, IL · April 15, 1979

Date: April 15, 1979 · 15:45 local
Place: Havana, IL
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N4248H
Reported as: Mooney M20J
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 230 total87 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N4248HRegistered now · Mooney M20JS/N 24-0681 · Built 1978 Airframe modelMooney M20J Engine modelLycoming I0360 seriesReciprocating

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 landed approx 230 feet short of the runway

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED APPROX 230 FEET SHORT OF THE RUNWAY

Other reports on N4248H · 1

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

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