- Date
- June 29, 1986, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ocala, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6824VMooney M20C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31691
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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 stated that he put the gear handle down, continued his apch and landed without realizing the gear was still up. Post crash examination of the landing gear retract system revealed that the fuse for the landing gear motor had blown during the extension sequence and the gear did not completely extend and lock.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6824V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-0004
- Airframe hours
- 1,900
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry C. Dotson
- Registered owner
- Edd Ussery
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PFN · Panama City, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OCF · Okala Municipal, runway 18, 5,007 × 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 48 in this make and model · 33 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 30 nm away