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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Pine Bluff, AR · July 25, 1981

Date: July 25, 1981 · 16:30 local
Place: Pine Bluff, AR
Airport: Grider Field
Phase of flight: Climb
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N5733Q
Reported as: Mooney M20E
Reported engine: Lycoming O320*
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 432 total276 in this make and model9 in the last 90 days

N5733QRegistered now · Mooney M20ES/N 725 · Built 1965 Airframe modelMooney M20E 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.

Engine backfired and misfiring after takeoff. Landed in farm field. Unable to locate cause of rough engine.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE BACKFIRED AND MISFIRING AFTER TAKEOFF. LANDED IN FARM FIELD. UNABLE TO LOCATE CAUSE OF ROUGH ENGINE.