# Incident 20111025025449I: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K, Middletown, RI, October 25, 2011

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 25, 2011, 18:30 local time
- Place: Middletown, RI
- Airport: Newport State Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.5324° N, 71.2815° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at NEWPORT STATE (UUU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.5324&lon=-71.2815&mi=10
- Aircraft: N777MT, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N777MT) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20K (registry code 5870220, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20k) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-360 series (registry code 17019, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY AIRCRAFT CORP. M20K
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 5,000 total, 1,000 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20111025025449I

## Narrative

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

ON OCTOBER 25, 2011, AT APPROXIMATELY 1830 EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST), A MOONEY M20K, N777MT BEING FLOWN BY PILOT/^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ FAILED TO CONTROL THE AIRCRAFT DURING THE LANDING PHASE. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE. THE PILOT OF THE AIRCRAFT STATED, DURING LANDING ON RUNWAY 34 AT NEWPORT STATE AIRPORT (UUU), HE EXPERIENCED WIND SHEAR, THE AIRCRAFT HIT THE GROUND HARD AND WENT NOSE HIGH. PILOT OF THE AIRCRAFT APPLIED FULL THROTTLE AND CONTINUED HIS FLIGHT. UPON RETURN TO UUU AND LANDED, THE PILOT ALLEGES THAT HE THEN NOTICED THE  PROPELLER BLADES DAMAGE.

## Other reports on N777MT (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20050820018459I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20050820018459I), Aug 20, 2005: Mooney M20K (N777MT), Somerville, NJ, Minor damage. (-23) When landing at Somerset Airport (smq), NJ, pilot landed hard on nose wheel, causing it to break off. The aircraft sustained propeller, front nose wheel…

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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