- Date
- February 19, 1983, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Butler, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2694WMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830219019929A
- Case key
- 35154
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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
After landing on rwy 25 the plt exited onto a taxiway near midfield to wait for another acft departing rwy 7. The wind was calm & the plt elected to depart rwy 7 as did the other acft. The gear was prematurely retracted during the takeoff roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2694W
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1009
- Airframe hours
- 17,278
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R.D.Kushner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 10, 1982 · 1,723 hours before
- Airport
- BTP · Butler County, runway 7, 4,000 × 100 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,730 total · 257 in this make and model · 1,546 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.