- Date
- August 16, 1985, 13:48 local (17:48 UTC)
- Place
- Ft. Myers, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7122VMooney M20F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850816043229A
- Case key
- 31443
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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 acft settled to the rwy during the takeoff roll after the landing gear retracted. The plt stated that the landing gear collapsed for an unknown reason. A post accident inspection of the landing gear and related components revealed no defects or malfunction that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7122V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-0051
- Airframe hours
- 2,167
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Ian K. Steuart
- Registered owner
- Curtis Tank Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 20, 1983 · 285 hours before
- Departed
- FMY · Ft. Myers, FL
- Destination
- 2G3 · Connellsville, PA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FMY · Page Field, runway 23, 6,461 × 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,177 total · 1,206 in this make and model · 1,531 as pilot in command · 57 in the last 90 days · 44 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 93 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.