20200120003689I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Oxnard, CA · January 20, 2020

Date
January 20, 2020 · 12:30 local
Place
Oxnard, CA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N228AL
Reported as
Mooney M20J
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-360-A3B6D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
697 total375 in this make and model74 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 from his before landing checklist by a radio call from Oxnard tower clearing N228AL to land number two behind a sport aircraft. The pilot was unable to visually locate the other aircraft and became fixated on the searching for the other aircraft. The pilot was unable to finish the before landing checklist prior to touchdown and landed gear up.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS DISTRACTED FROM HIS BEFORE LANDING CHECKLIST BY A RADIO CALL FROM OXNARD TOWER CLEARING N228AL TO LAND NUMBER TWO BEHIND A SPORT AIRCRAFT. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO VISUALLY LOCATE THE OTHER AIRCRAFT AND BECAME FIXATED ON THE SEARCHING FOR THE OTHER AIRCRAFT. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO FINISH THE BEFORE LANDING CHECKLIST PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN AND LANDED GEAR UP.