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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Melbourne, FL · August 10, 1997

Date
August 10, 1997 · 17:30 local
Place
Melbourne, FL
Airport
Melbourne Regional
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N655FT
Reported as
Mooney M20J
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A3B6
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
141 total10 in this make and model6 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.

Narrative: pilot returned to mlb from a VFR cross country. Upon returning the pilot elected to stay in the pattern for touch and gos. During pattern work the wind shifted and the pilot was instructed by ATC to switch runways. The pilot forgot to lower the gear and landed gear up on runway 09R.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT RETURNED TO MLB FROM A VFR CROSS COUNTRY. UPON RETURNING THE PILOT ELECTED TO STAY IN THE PATTERN FOR TOUCH AND GOS. DURING PATTERN WORK THE WIND SHIFTED AND THE PILOT WAS INSTRUCTED BY ATC TO SWITCH RUNWAYS. THE PILOT FORGOT TO LOWER THE GEAR AND LANDED GEAR UP ON RUNWAY 09R.