# Incident 20000221001609I: Mooney M20F, Roanoke, VA, February 21, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 21, 2000, 09:07 local time
- Place: Roanoke, VA
- Airport: Roanoke Regional/Woodrum Field
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.2710° N, 79.9414° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Roanoke, VA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.2710&lon=-79.9414&mi=10
- Aircraft: N13MD, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N13MD) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20F (registry code 5870214, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20f) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming I0360 series (registry code 41515, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-i0360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY M20F
- Reported engine: CONT IO360*
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,908 total, 1,598 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000221001609I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) FEBRUARY 22, 2000, RECEIVED PRELIMINARY INCIDENT REPORT FROM COMM CENTER DATED FEBRUARY 21, 2000, FROM ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, 0907E LOCAL TIME.  REPORT STATED A/C LANDED ON RUNWAY 33 AFTER REPORTING A PROBLEM WITH THE ENGINE.  ARFF RESPONDED AND THE A/C TAXIED TO THE RAMP.  PILOT CONTACTED PIEDMONT AVIATION SERVICES TO EVALUATE DISCREPANCY WITH ENGINE.  PIEDMONT MAINT HAD FOUND THE THROTTLE CONTROL DISCONNECTED FROM THE FUEL INJECTOR SERVO.  THE THROTTLE CONTROL WAS FOUND UNDAMAGED, WITH THE ROD END STILL ATTACHED.  PIEDMONT REPORTED THE THROTTLE CONTROL ATTACH BOLT WAS STILL LOCATED IN THE HOLE OF THE SERVO ATTACH ARM.  THE NUT AND COTTER PIN WAS NOT LOCATED IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT.  MOORSTEIN DEPARTED ROANOKE AFTER PIEDMONT RECONNECTED THE THROTTLE CONTROL TO THE FUEL SERVO.  PIC GAVE THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT:AFTER DEPARTING BCB AT 0845, CLIMBED TO AN ALTITUDE OF 9500 FEET, BEGAN TO NOTICE MAP DROP FROM 22" TO 17" (AT 0905) AND CONTINUED TO DROP TO 12".  PILOT WAS CONCERNED THAT THE AUX FUEL PUMP WAS CAUSING THE LOSS OF POWER.  HE STATED TO INSPECTORS THAT THE PUMP HAD BEEN LEAKING FUEL AND MAKING (IN HIS OPINION) ABNORMAL NOISE THE LAST FEW LEGS OF HIS TRIP.  PIC REPORTED TO   ROANOKE APPROACH CONTROL HE WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF ROANOKE AT 9500 FEET AND HAD LOST HIS ENGINE. AN APPROACH INITIALLY ASSIGNED HIM RUNWAY 33, THEN GAVE PIC CHOICE OF ANY RUNWAY.  DUE TO ALTITUDE, PIC ELECTED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 33.  AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH NO DAMAGE.

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