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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Palmdale, CA · February 2, 1983

Date
February 2, 1983 · 11:49 local
Place
Palmdale, CA
Airport
Palmdale Plant 42
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2993L
Reported as
Mooney M20F
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
774 total572 in this make and model38 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.

Reported emergency power loss IFR en route. Landed in onion field short of airport. No engine malfunctions.

As the FAA filed it

REPORTED EMERGENCY POWER LOSS IFR EN ROUTE. LANDED IN ONION FIELD SHORT OF AIRPORT. NO ENGINE MALFUNCTIONS.