- Date
- November 13, 1982, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Talladega, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6861VMooney M20F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821113058519A
- Case key
- 72785
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Gear extension - not performedCause
Checklist - not usedFactor
Wheels up landing - inadvertent
Analysis
Pilot forgot to extend landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6861V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-1254
- Airframe hours
- 937
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-AIA, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Organ Center, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Organ Center, Inc.
- Departed
- C · Huntsville, AL
- Destination
- C · Talladega, AL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ASN · Talladega Municipal, runway 3, 6,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,203 total · 2,203 in this make and model · 2,131 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 43 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.