- Date
- December 25, 1984, 14:55 local (19:55 UTC)
- Place
- Monroeville, AL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9418VMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6727
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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.
Analysis
Plt unable to electrically or manually fully extend landing gear in traffic pattern so he decided to make a gear up landing. Unknowingly plt had lowered gear to a transit position and gear collapsed on landing. Plt had previous problems with gear and had to manually extend gear. Gear was able to be manually extended after the accident. Problem with electrical gear extension system was undetermined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9418V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 700024
- Airframe hours
- 1,882
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hi Temp Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1984
- Departed
- MSL · Muscle Shoals, AL
- Destination
- MVC · Monroeville, AL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MVC · Monroe Co, runway 30, 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,415 total · 1,374 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None