# Incident 20000409017709I: Mooney M20R, San Antonio, TX, April 9, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 9, 2000, 15:30 local time
- Place: San Antonio, TX
- Airport: San Antonio International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.5340° N, 98.4691° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAN ANTONIO INTL (SAT), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.5340&lon=-98.4691&mi=10
- Aircraft: N134MC, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N134MC) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20R (registry code 5870225, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20r) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550 series (registry code 17042, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY M20R
- Reported engine: CONT IO550*
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 248 total, 50 in this make and model, 50 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000409017709I

## Narrative

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

(-23)ON APRIL 9, 2000, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ (PIC) WAS OPERATING N134MC, A MOONEY AIRCRAFT, MODEL M-20R, IN ROUTE TO SAT WITH AN IFR FLIGTH PLAN FILED.  HE DEPARTED BAY CITY, TX., ON FINAL TO SAT.  HE WAS CLEARED BY, SAT ATC, FOR A VFR LANDING ON RUNWAY 12R.  WHILE AN FINAL APPROACH, WITH THROTTLES BACK, THE ARICRAFT EXPERIENCED A STRONG WIND GUST WHICH, IN TURN, CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO BALLOON UP AND BACK DOWN CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO IMPACTED THE RUNWAY.  THE AIRCRAFT BALLOONED UP AGAIN NEARING THE EDGE OF THE RUNWAY AND COMING BACK DOWN IMPACTING THE RUNWAY A SECOND TIME.  THIS CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO ABRUPTLY STRIKE THE RUNWAY, THUS CAUSING SOME DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT IN WHICH HE WAS NOT AWARE OF AT THE TIME.  ^PRIVACY DATA OM^ APPLIED FULL POWER AND CONDUCTED A GO-AROUND.  SAT ATC CLEARED ^PRIVACY DATA O^ FOR RUNWAY 12L AND HE LANDED WITH OUT FURTHER INCIDENT.  HE THEN TAXIED FORM THE RUNWAY TO THE RAMP PARKING.  AFTER ENGINE SHUT DOWN HE THEN NOTICED THE DAMAGE TO THE PROPELLER.  ^PRIVACY DATA OM^ WAS THE ONLY PERSON ON BOARD.  HE DID NOT EXPERIENCE AN EMEERGENCY SITUATION OR FIRE.  HE EXITED THE AIRCRAFT IN THE NORMAL EVACUATION PROCEDURES AND NOTED, NO INJURIES OCCURRED.      HE WAS BRIEFED BY ATIS, PRIOR TO LANDING, THAT THE WINDS WERE 160 TO 170 AT 12 TO 17 KNOTS. ^PRIVACY DATA OM^, AFTER FURTHER EVALUATION, NOTED THAT THERE WAS SOME DAMAGE TO THE NOSE GEAR RUBBER ABSORBER AND THREE PROPELLER BLADES, WHICH WERE BENT ABOUT TWO INCHES FORM THE TIPS.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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