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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Twenty Nine Pal, CA · December 26, 1983

Date: December 26, 1983 · 11:30 local
Place: Twenty Nine Pal, CA
Airport: Twenty Nine Palms
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9314M
Reported as: Mooney M20E
Reported engine: Lycoming IO360A1A
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 350 total45 in this make and model30 in the last 90 days

N9314MRegistration cancelled Mar 8, 2018 · Mooney M20ES/N 1247 · Built 1966 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.

Unsafe gear light. Manual gear handle moved to retract position. May not have been locked in down position.

As the FAA filed it

UNSAFE GEAR LIGHT. MANUAL GEAR HANDLE MOVED TO RETRACT POSITION. MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LOCKED IN DOWN POSITION.