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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Toccoa, GA · November 18, 1980

Date
November 18, 1980 · 12:45 local
Place
Toccoa, GA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9616M
Reported as
Mooney M20F
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
130 total16 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 made emergency landing because of a rough running engine. The rocker arm shaft of intake valve worked loose.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MADE EMERGENCY LANDING BECAUSE OF A ROUGH RUNNING ENGINE. THE ROCKER ARM SHAFT OF INTAKE VALVE WORKED LOOSE.