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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Tracy, CA · October 25, 2010

Date
October 25, 2010 · 12:00 local
Place
Tracy, CA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6764N
Reported as
Mooney M20E
Reported engine
Lycoming LYCOMMING I0360
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
6,926 total5,000 in this make and model60 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.

Entering downwind pattern, pilot was verbalizing landing checklist (gump). Wind turbulence requiring reset of power settings and the pilot explaining this to the passenger on board caused a level of distraction resulting in subsequent failure to complete landing checklist.

As the FAA filed it

ENTERING DOWNWIND PATTERN, PILOT WAS VERBALIZING LANDING CHECKLIST (GUMP). WIND TURBULENCE REQUIRING RESET OF POWER SETTINGS AND THE PILOT EXPLAINING THIS TO THE PASSENGER ON BOARD CAUSED A LEVEL OF DISTRACTION RESULTING IN SUBSEQUENT FAILURE TO COMPLETE LANDING CHECKLIST.