six gear collapses & gear ups in one week

[cliffy]

5 minutes ago, carusoam said:

Fixed gear Mooneys are so safe...

The insurance companies pay you an annual payment...

 

The nose wheel of the fixed gear Mooney is so strong... you get four bounces before the nose wheel collapses...

 

If the gear on my fixed gear Mooney actually collapses... I would have to sneak into MS under an assumed name....

1) Everyone will know what happened...

2) Something would give me away...

3) It would take me a few posts to improve my disguise...

PP thoughts only, my best attempts at comedy... clearly not a comedian...

Best regards,

-a-

Lets try to think out of the box to keep Mooney afloat as obviously what has transpired in the past hasn't worked MANY TIMES!

[Guillaume]

For those interested, the french NTSB just published an investigation report on a Mooney nose gear collapse.

Improper maintenance lead to the failure.

 

 

[Hank]

45 minutes ago, Guillaume said:

For those interested, the french NTSB just published an investigation report on a Mooney nose gear collapse.

Improper maintenance lead to the failure.

 

 

For those who think the FAA and NTSB are slow, this Incident was in Nov. 2013; the report was published in June 2020.      Apparently someone used needle nose pliers to loosen and retighten the nuts on the landing gear actuation rod at the gearbox end . . . . Because it's so difficult to grab a wrench? Or because standard wrenches are difficult to find in France, the home the metric system?

[Guillaume]

17 hours ago, Hank said:

Because it's so difficult to grab a wrench? Or because standard wrenches are difficult to find in France, the home the metric system?

US tools are not difficult to find over here.

I would say that half of the GA fleet is composed of US made aircraft.

[cliffy]

Spanners? spanners? We don't need no spanners over here! :-)

[philiplane]

Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. 

Have we run out of Mooneys already?

Edited September 22, 2020 by philiplane

[Missile=Awesome]

51 minutes ago, philiplane said:

Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. 

Have we run out of Mooneys already?

Announcer’s hex?  Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Try holding your breath.

[gsxrpilot]

4 hours ago, philiplane said:

Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. 

Have we run out of Mooneys already?

Dude, you can't be talking about a no hitter while it's in progress! Everyone knows that!

[kortopates]

What a rare Monday morning wrt to the FAA incidents reports on Mooney's. Mooney has now gone 10 full days without a single incident report and as such Mooney didn't even make the list of over 40 different airframe company's.

Lets hope it continues!

[Andy95W]

Don't jinx us, Paul!

[philiplane]

3 hours ago, kortopates said:

What a rare Monday morning wrt to the FAA incidents reports on Mooney's. Mooney has now gone 10 full days without a single incident report and as such Mooney didn't even make the list of over 40 different airframe company's.

Lets hope it continues!

So we DID run out of Mooneys? 

[RobertGary1]

On 9/6/2020 at 7:41 PM, zaitcev said:

How comes you guys aren't discussing a disabled Mooney blocking the only remaining runway today in Austin, Texas (KAUS)? I saw a picture on FB with 9 airliners stuck on the taxiway. I would not be surprised if it's a gear-up landing.

I went flying today and it was rather uneventful. Checked the gear on base and final.

Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters.

 

-Robert

[Hank]

13 hours ago, RobertGary1 said:

Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters.

Glad I'm not based wherever "here" is!!

[steingar]

Weather is starting to get bad...

[philiplane]

 

An M20K had a prop strike upon landing in Seeley Lake Montana. This was posted today by the FAA, but with an incident date of September 3rd.

[philiplane]

M20F gear collapsed on landing 10-2-2020 Denver CO

M20G landed gear up 10-4-2020 Winnsboro SC 

back on track for an awful year.

[steingar]

Not that bad...

[philiplane]

A Mooney M18C gear collapsed upon landing, Newark Ohio. October 17th.

[Mooneymite]

A different type of Mooney, but still a gear up.  

TBM

[kpaul]

17 hours ago, Mooneymite said:

A different type of Mooney, but still a gear up.  

TBM

I don't know why anyone would be in that much of a hurry to land in Brownsville. 

[larrynimmo]

This year won’t end soon enough....

[philiplane]

eight days with no incidents, and all is well....

[philiplane]

[Parker_Woodruff]

Underwriting feedback from a top tier insurance company this morning was they're hesitant to reduce training requirements on Mooney transitions due to a lot of Mooney gear up landings.

[tmo]

Are the gear-ups really mainly low Mooney time pilots?