19890701039049I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Yucca Valley, CA · July 1, 1989

Date
July 1, 1989 · 12:45 local
Place
Yucca Valley, CA
Airport
Yucca Valley Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3482X
Reported as
Mooney M20C
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1D
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
280 total260 in this make and model

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 forgot to lower landing gear and landed with gear retracted.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FORGOT TO LOWER LANDING GEAR AND LANDED WITH GEAR RETRACTED.