- Date
- June 7, 1987, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Harwood, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6933UMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870607021029A
- Case key
- 17247
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was landing his Mooney M20E on a private grass airstrip. He said he lowered the manual landing gear and thought he felt the thumblock snap into place. Upon touchdown the landing gear folded up and the acft slid to a stop, resulting in substantial damage. The owner's manual cautions plts to make three checks to ascertain that the landing gear is down and locked: 1. Physical thumblock check; 2. Visual gear light check; 3. Audible gear horn check from retarded throttle. Asked if he ahd checked to see if he had a safe/gear down and locked green light indication, the plt said he thought he had. He said he didn't remember if the gear unsafe warning horn ever sounded.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6933U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 303
- Airframe hours
- 2,745
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Keith W. Schonert
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 2, 1987
- Departed
- D54 · West Fargo, ND
- Airport
- runway 29, 1,900 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 350 total · 350 in this make and model · 240 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- 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.