20030425016979I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Saratoga Spring, NY · April 25, 2003

Date
April 25, 2003 · 17:00 local
Place
Saratoga Spring, NY
Airport
Saratoga County Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N201YV
Reported as
Mooney M20J
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
316 total40 in this make and model21 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) On landing roll, the pilot applied brakes to slow the aircraft, and the left brake locked up causing the aircraft to leave the runway to the left, hit the VASI lights with the right wing, then the left brake released and the pilot steered the plane back to the runway. The pilot stopped the aircraft, shutdown, and the aircraft was towed to the ramp.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ON LANDING ROLL, THE PILOT APPLIED BRAKES TO SLOW THE AIRCRAFT, AND THE LEFT BRAKE LOCKED UP CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO LEAVE THE RUNWAY TO THE LEFT, HIT THE VASI LIGHTS WITH THE RIGHT WING, THEN THE LEFT BRAKE RELEASED AND THE PILOT STEERED THE PLANE BACK TO THE RUNWAY. THE PILOT STOPPED THE AIRCRAFT, SHUTDOWN, AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS TOWED TO THE RAMP.