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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20K · Xenia, OH · April 11, 2012

Date
April 11, 2012 · 11:40 local
Place
Xenia, OH
Airport
Greene County/Jackson
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1026U
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
1,500 total600 in this make and model30 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.

Pilot was distracted during landing approach and, by his own admission, forgot to put the gear down.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS DISTRACTED DURING LANDING APPROACH AND, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, FORGOT TO PUT THE GEAR DOWN.