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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Westhampton Bea, NY · June 4, 1990

Date
June 4, 1990 · 20:37 local
Place
Westhampton Bea, NY
Airport
Suffolk County
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4497H
Reported as
Mooney M20J
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1B6
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
700 in this make and model150 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.

Lost power on liftoff. Returned to same runway. Fuel selector on almost empty tank.

As the FAA filed it

LOST POWER ON LIFTOFF. RETURNED TO SAME RUNWAY. FUEL SELECTOR ON ALMOST EMPTY TANK.