# Incident 20160817014559I: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, Guernsey, WY, August 17, 2016

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 17, 2016, 21:00 local time
- Place: Guernsey, WY
- Airport: Camp Guernsey Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.2597° N, 104.7283° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CAMP GUERNSEY (GUR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.2597&lon=-104.7283&mi=10
- Aircraft: N252BL, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N252BL-2018-09-13) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20K (registry code 5870220, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20k) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-360 series (registry code 17019, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY AIRCRAFT CORP. M20K
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 2,035 total, 239 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160817014559I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT TRIED TO TURN ON THE RUNWAY LIGHTS WITH THE APPROPRIATE RADIO FREQUENCY BUT THEY WOULD NOT COME ON. A FULL MOON AND PROPERLY FUNCTIONING LANDING LIGHTS PROVIDED SUFFICIENT VISIBILITY FOR LANDING. DISTRACTED BY THE MALFUNCTIONING RUNWAY LIGHT SYSTEM, THE PILOT IGNORED THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN AND LANDED THE AIRCRAFT WITHOUT EXTENDING THE LANDING GEAR. THE AIRPORT MANAGER STATED THAT THE RUNWAY LIGHT ISSUE HAS BEEN DUPLICATED. A NOTAM HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL PROPER RUNWAY LIGHT OPERATION CAN BE CONFIRMED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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