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Incident

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Watsonville, CA · July 21, 1985

Date
July 21, 1985 · 12:30 local
Place
Watsonville, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5689Q
Reported as
Mooney M20C
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1D
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total250 in this make and model40 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.

Pilot was on LOC approach but climbed out of fog and requested vectors to VFR. Airport VFR with fog bank south.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ON LOC APPROACH BUT CLIMBED OUT OF FOG AND REQUESTED VECTORS TO VFR. AIRPORT VFR WITH FOG BANK SOUTH.