- Date
- September 4, 1990, 20:45 local (Sep 5, 1990, 02:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cheyenne, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9067VMooney M-20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900904065679A
- Case key
- 41270
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to extend the landing gear prior to landing after having been distracted by traffic. A mitigating factor in this accident was the fact that the gear warning horn did not function.
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 pilot of the Mooney M-20E landed gear-up after failing to extend the landing gear after being distracted by other air traffic. Investigation revealed that the gear warning horn was not functioning.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9067V
- Reported as
- Mooney M-20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 690010
- Airframe hours
- 2,246
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert A. Sands
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 24, 1990 · 103 hours before
- Airport
- CYS · Cheyenne, runway 12, 6,691 × 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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 486 total · 486 in this make and model · 353 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CYS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.