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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Pine Bluff, AR · September 29, 1985

Date
September 29, 1985 · 16:35 local
Place
Pine Bluff, AR
Airport
Grider
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5815Q
Reported as
Mooney M20E
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total150 in this make and model50 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 circled field to observe wind sock and then landed gear up. Pilot mistook warning horn for stall warning horn

As the FAA filed it

PILOT CIRCLED FIELD TO OBSERVE WIND SOCK AND THEN LANDED GEAR UP. PILOT MISTOOK WARNING HORN FOR STALL WARNING HORN