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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20B · Temecula, CA · March 18, 1990

Date: March 18, 1990 · 19:10 local
Place: Temecula, CA
Airport: Rancho California Airport
Phase of flight: Engine Run-Up
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N74749
Reported as: Mooney M20B
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 7,900 total25 in the last 90 days

N74749Registration cancelled Apr 27, 2009 · Mooney M20BS/N 1749 · Built 1961 Airframe modelMooney M20B Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 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.

Pilot advanced the throttle for engine runup before takeoff at which time nose wheel collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ADVANCED THE THROTTLE FOR ENGINE RUNUP BEFORE TAKEOFF AT WHICH TIME NOSE WHEEL COLLAPSED.