- Date
- August 18, 1990, 17:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Winfield, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N74745Mooney M20B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900818035129A
- Case key
- 14756
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
Non-compliance of an airworthiness directive by maintenance personnel.
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 left main landing gear collapsed during landing rollout and the airplane departed the left side of the runway. Examination of the airplane showed the left main gear retracting truss failed at a weld, allowing the gear to collapse. The failed part has been obsolete since the issuance of AD 73-21-01 which directed replacement of retracting links on model M20 airplanes and referred to Mooney service bulletin M20-155. The bulletin further specifies that this aircraft by serial number requires replacement of the retracting trusses to utilize the new links. The airframe log showed the AD signed off with 'new retract links' installed. Right main and nose gear trusses were also original and obsolete.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74745
- Reported as
- Mooney M20B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1745
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Clyde Clark
- Departed
- 3A4 · Augusta, KS
- Airport
- WLD · Strother Field, runway 17, 5,510 × 150 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 232 total · 78 in this make and model · 101 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 21 knots, gusting 27
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT, 35 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.