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Incident

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Polk, AL · July 14, 1989

Date
July 14, 1989 · 11:20 local
Place
Polk, AL
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5255S
Reported as
Mooney M20J
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
170 total20 in this make and model20 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 inflight. Emergency landing on road. Installed new batttery and resumed flight.

As the FAA filed it

ELECTRICAL FAILURE INFLIGHT. EMERGENCY LANDING ON ROAD. INSTALLED NEW BATTTERY AND RESUMED FLIGHT.