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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Plano, TX · July 2, 1982

Date: July 2, 1982 · 22:15 local
Place: Plano, TX
Airport: Dallas North
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6303Q
Reported as: Mooney M20F
Reported engine: Lycoming IO360A1A
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 3,000 total1,000 in this make and model90 in the last 90 days

N6303QRegistered now · Mooney M20FS/N 670396 · Built 1967 Airframe modelMooney M20F 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.

Gear would not retract. Pilot landed without using manual gear system. Gear folded. Wrong generator belt installed.

As the FAA filed it

GEAR WOULD NOT RETRACT. PILOT LANDED WITHOUT USING MANUAL GEAR SYSTEM. GEAR FOLDED. WRONG GENERATOR BELT INSTALLED.