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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M-18C · Winterset, IA · May 31, 2026

Date
May 31, 2026 · 11:00 local
Place
Winterset, IA
Airport
Winterset Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N70DV
Reported as
Mooney M-18C
Reported engine
Continental A&C65 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
14,303 total1 in this make and model3 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.

Pilot-in-command right foot slipped off controls and got stuck between rudder and brake pedal tube resulting in loss of steering/yaw control and brake control which led to the airplane veering off of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT-IN-COMMAND RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF CONTROLS AND GOT STUCK BETWEEN RUDDER AND BRAKE PEDAL TUBE RESULTING IN LOSS OF STEERING/YAW CONTROL AND BRAKE CONTROL WHICH LED TO THE AIRPLANE VEERING OFF OF THE RUNWAY.