# Incident 19810915073349I: Mooney M20K, St Petersburg, FL, September 15, 1981

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 15, 1981, 08:40 local time
- Place: St Petersburg, FL
- Airport: Albert Whitted
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.7651° N, 82.6269° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ALBERT WHITTED (SPG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.7651&lon=-82.6269&mi=10
- Aircraft: N231DS, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N231DS-1998-08-28) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20K (registry code 5870220, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20k) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY M20K
- Reported engine: CONT TSIO360*
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 650 total, 350 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810915073349I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AFTER LANDING ROLLOUT AIRCRAFT PORPOISED, NOSE GEAR BROKE, THEN LEFT GEAR BROKE. NO EVIDENCE OF PREVIOUS DAMAGE.

## Other reports on N231DS (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19980107000139A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980107000139A), Jan 7, 1998: Mooney M20K (N231DS), Vernon, TX, Destroyed. Acft crashed und unk circum, pilot and one passenger suffered fatal inj, Vernon, TX. (-23) on January 7, 1998, at 11:50 a.m., a Mooney-20-K owned and operated…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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