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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20K · Iowa City, IA · July 30, 2015

Date
July 30, 2015 · 20:30 local
Place
Iowa City, IA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5766M
Reported as
Mooney M20K
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
456 total288 in this make and model3 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.

The pilot-flying landed at (kiow) on runway 30 and was still rolling when he mistakenly cycled the landing gear handle to the up position causing the aircraft landing gear to retract. The propeller and the underside of the aircraft fuselage, including antennas, were damaged.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT-FLYING LANDED AT (KIOW) ON RUNWAY 30 AND WAS STILL ROLLING WHEN HE MISTAKENLY CYCLED THE LANDING GEAR HANDLE TO THE UP POSITION CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR TO RETRACT. THE PROPELLER AND THE UNDERSIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE, INCLUDING ANTENNAS, WERE DAMAGED.