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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Ft Lauderdale, FL · May 9, 1980

Date
May 9, 1980 · 10:55 local
Place
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Airport
Executive
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N78965
Reported as
Mooney M20C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
228 total0 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.

Right gear collapsed on takeoff roll due to accumulated debris on landing gear retracting link.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT GEAR COLLAPSED ON TAKEOFF ROLL DUE TO ACCUMULATED DEBRIS ON LANDING GEAR RETRACTING LINK.