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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20K · Long Beach, CA · November 21, 1979

Date
November 21, 1979 · 16:00 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N231GR
Reported as
Mooney M20K
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
900 total45 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 failed to lower gear before landing.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FAILED TO LOWER GEAR BEFORE LANDING.