# Incident 20160821008189I: Mooney M20R, Flandreau, SD, August 21, 2016

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 21, 2016, 12:00 local time
- Place: Flandreau, SD
- Airport: Flandreau Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.0041° N, 96.5932° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FLANDREAU MUNI (4P3), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.0041&lon=-96.5932&mi=10
- Aircraft: N91692, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N91692) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20R (registry code 5870225, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20r) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TP500 series (registry code 17050, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tp500-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY M20R
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-550
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,500 total, 500 in this make and model, 15 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160821008189I

## Narrative

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

ON SUNDAY AUGUST 21, 2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:30AM A PILOT DEPARTED THE FLANDREAU, SD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (4P3) TO CONDUCT SOME PROFICIENCY FLYING. AT APPROXIMATELY 12:15PM ON HIS APPROACH TO 4P3 HE COMMUNICATED TWICE WITH ANOTHER AIRCRAFT THAT HE KNEW WAS PERFORMING TOUCH AND GOS AT 4P3.

THE PILOT ENTERED DOWNWIND FOR RUNWAY 28 FROM A 45 DEGREE ENTRY AS THE OTHER AIRCRAFT (CESSNA) WAS LANDING. THE CESSNA WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE AIRPORT GIVING THE PILOT TIME TO LAND.  ON DOWNWIND HIS SPEED WAS AT 110 KNOTS WHEN HE REDUCED POWER TO GET FLAP DOWN SPEED OF 100 KNOTS, ABOUT THIS TIME HIS TRAFFIC ALERT SYSTEM HORN CAME ON ALERTING HIM THERE WAS TRAFFIC WITHIN A MILE OF HIS AIRCRAFT.  AS HE PASSED THE END OF THE RUNWAY, THE PILOT STATED HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE DISTRACTED BY TAKING TIME TO SHUT OFF THE TRAFFIC WARNING SYSTEM AND TURNED BASE THEN FINAL AT 80 KNOTS FOR THE LANDING. THE PILOT STATED, AS THE PLANE WENT PAST NORMAL TOUCHDOWN AND SETTLED TO THE RUNWAY ON CENTER LINE, HE KNEW THE TRAFFIC ALERT SYSTEM HORN WAS NOT THE ALERT HE WAS HEARING, BUT INSTEAD THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN DUE TO THE LANDING GEAR WAS NOT EXTENDED.

THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED DAMAGE TO THE PROPELLER, SUDDEN STOPPAGE TO THE ENGINE AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE PILOT WAS THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND WAS NOT INJURED.

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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