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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Moraine, OH · September 11, 1979

Date
September 11, 1979 · 14:30 local
Place
Moraine, OH
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N78914
Reported as
Mooney M20C
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,500 total500 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 landed gear up. Warning horn failed to activate due to worn, maladjusted warning switch.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED GEAR UP. WARNING HORN FAILED TO ACTIVATE DUE TO WORN, MALADJUSTED WARNING SWITCH.