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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20M · Big Timber, MT · June 24, 2008

Date: June 24, 2008 · 14:35 local
Place: Big Timber, MT
Airport: Big Timber
Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9144C
Reported as: Mooney M20M
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,000 total400 in this make and model12 in the last 90 days

N9144CRegistered now · Mooney M20MS/N 27-0091 · Built 1991 Airframe modelMooney M20M Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

(-23) On June 24, 2008 at 1435 MDT a Mooney M20M, N9144C registered to privacy data omitted experienced a complete in flight failure of the electrical system and made a emergency landing at Big Timber Airport, Big Timber Montana, where upon touch down, the landing gear collapsed. N9144C was en-route,to billings airport (bil) for maintenance on a known intermittent transponder problem when the incident occurred, visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a VFR flight plan was filed. When the landing gear collapsed N9144C suffered minor damage to the airframe and propeller ground strike, the private pilot was not injured. The flight originated at bozeman airport (bzn) on June 24, 2008 at 1410 MDT.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ON JUNE 24, 2008 AT 1435 MDT A MOONEY M20M, N9144C REGISTERED TO ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ EXPERIENCED A COMPLETE IN FLIGHT FAILURE OF THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND MADE A EMERGENCY LANDING AT BIG TIMBER AIRPORT, BIG TIMBER MONTANA, WHERE UPON TOUCH DOWN, THE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED. N9144C WAS EN-ROUTE,TO BILLINGS AIRPORT (BIL) FOR MAINTENANCE ON A KNOWN INTERMITTENT TRANSPONDER PROBLEM WHEN THE INCIDENT OCCURRED, VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AND A VFR FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. WHEN THE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED N9144C SUFFERED MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRFRAME AND PROPELLER GROUND STRIKE, THE PRIVATE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED. THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT BOZEMAN AIRPORT (BZN) ON JUNE 24, 2008 AT 1410 MDT.