19831111070849I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Wharton, TX · November 11, 1983

Date
November 11, 1983 · 20:15 local
Place
Wharton, TX
Airport
Wharton
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N52DB
Reported as
Mooney M20F
Reported engine
Continental IO360A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
550 total370 in this make and model85 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.

Electrical failure at night. Turned off runway onto grassy area in the dark and hit a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

ELECTRICAL FAILURE AT NIGHT. TURNED OFF RUNWAY ONTO GRASSY AREA IN THE DARK AND HIT A DITCH.

Other reports on N52DB · 3

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