- Date
- February 15, 1984, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pocahontas, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N74515Mooney MK20B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840215004469A
- Case key
- 33637
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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.
Complete gear collapsed
Landing gear,gear lever - unlockedFactor
Gear down and locked - inaccurateCause
Analysis
The acft landing gear retracted during landing. The plt reported that the manually activated gear handle popped out of the gear down position during the landing roll. The plt indicated that he thought the gear handle was positively in the down lock position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74515
- Reported as
- Mooney MK20B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1905
- Airframe hours
- 3,643
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger Richard & D. Young
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 30, 1983 · 240 hours before
- Departed
- M70 · Pocahontas, AR
- Airport
- Pocahontas, runway 35, 3,000 × 2 ft, macadam
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 87 total · 87 in this make and model · 87 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JBR, 28 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.