# Incident 20240308015819I: Mooney M20R, Lawrenceville, GA, March 8, 2024

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 8, 2024, 09:51 local time
- Place: Lawrenceville, GA
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.9529° N, 83.9922° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Lawrenceville, GA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.9529&lon=-83.9922&mi=10
- Aircraft: N120GX, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N120GX) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Mooney M20R (registry code 5870225, https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20r) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550-G (registry code 17213, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-g) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: MOONEY M20R
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-550-G
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 3,010 total, 112 in this make and model, 24 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240308015819I

## Narrative

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

PILOT WITH WORK COLLEAGUE WERE FLYING FROM KHWY TO KLZU. IFR FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED BUT WX WAS VFR FROM DEPART W/ POSSIBLE IMC AT LZU. ATIS APPROACH INFO @ LZU 100 @ 10KTS. WHILE IN CONTACT VFR, CLEARED TO LAND BEHIND CORP ACFT. PILOT STATES ATIS INFO DID NOT MATCH CONDITIONS, CONCLUDED CHANGING CONDITIONS/CALLS FROM TWR TO OTHER ACFT THAT VERIFIED. PLT/COPLT DISCUSSED POSSIBLE WAKE TURBULANCE EXTENDING DWNWIND LEG. STABLE LANDING RWY 25 AT ABOUT 75 KNTS, ROLLED SMOOTHLY W/ 3-4 COUNT. SUDDEN HARD RIGHT VEER, FULL LEFT RUDDER APPLIED NWS COULDN'T OVERCOME SKIDDING TO THE RIGHT. COPLT CONFIRMED FULL LEFT RUDDER W/LITTLE EFFECT. EXITED RWY <50KNTS @ 45 DEG HITTING TAXIWAY SIGN, COMING TO REST IN GRASS SAFETY AREA. ONCE EXITED ACFT, OBSERVED FULL WX FRONT W/GUSTING WINDS >20 KNTS W/POSSIBLY CHANGING DIRECTIONS FOR ADDT'L CROSSWIND COMPONENT.

## Other reports on N120GX (1)

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

- [Accident 20200909012829A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200909012829A), Sep 9, 2020: Mooney M20R (N120GX), Weston, FL, Substantial damage. On September 9, 2020, at approximately 0945 eastern standard time. A Mooney M20R (N120GX), registered to [privacy data omitted] on a 14 CFR 91 VFR flight from…

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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