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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20K · Palo Alto, CA · February 26, 1992

Date: February 26, 1992 · 17:30 local
Place: Palo Alto, CA
Airport: Palo Alto Airport-Santa Clara Cou
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N231KC
Reported as: Mooney M20K
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,135 total375 in this make and model25 in the last 90 days

N231KCRegistered now · Mooney M20KS/N 25-0007 · Built 1978 Airframe modelMooney M20K Engine modelContinental TSIO-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 making a short field approach. Landed short of runway. Right gear struck a lip of runway. Gear sheared off.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MAKING A SHORT FIELD APPROACH. LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY. RIGHT GEAR STRUCK A LIP OF RUNWAY. GEAR SHEARED OFF.