- Date
- August 29, 1987, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Put In Bay, OH
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N9784MMooney M20F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870829048659A
- Case key
- 7510
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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
The plt heard a loud 'snap' while taxiing to the rwy, and the ldg gear collapsed immediately thereafter. The plt observed that the gear handle was still in the down-and-locked position and that the green 'gear down' light remained illuminated. FAA exam of the manually operated ldg gear system revealed that the gear handle/lever assy had cracked and separated where it was welded to a cross member. Metallurgical exam of the fracture surfaces revealed evidence of bending overstress separation. Exam of the acft maintenance records revealed that the ldg gear had been re-rigged about 11 flt hrs before the accident occurred. The acft maintenance manual notes that the overcenter configuration of the retraction linkage holds the gear down and locked, and warns that improper gear rigging can result in a gear collapse during taxiing or ldg.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9784M
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 680201
- Airframe hours
- 1,920
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R.J. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 31, 1986 · 11 hours before
- Destination
- PTK · Pontiac, MI
- Airport
- OH30 · Put-In-Bay, runway 22, 2,870 × 30 ft, concrete
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
- 56
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,172 total · 54 in this make and model · 6,065 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.