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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20K · Big Piney, WY · July 29, 2011

Date
July 29, 2011 · 14:00 local
Place
Big Piney, WY
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N231FW
Reported as
Mooney M20K
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
620 total230 in this make and model10 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.

Aircraft about to touch down on landing and gust of wind (crosswind) caught aircraft and pilot lost control causing aircraft to leave runway into sagebrush. Minor damage to aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT ABOUT TO TOUCH DOWN ON LANDING AND GUST OF WIND (CROSSWIND) CAUGHT AIRCRAFT AND PILOT LOST CONTROL CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO LEAVE RUNWAY INTO SAGEBRUSH. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT.