- Date
- June 9, 1984, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Seale, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3494XMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840609023339A
- Case key
- 6474
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt approached downwind at 80 mph with full flaps. At touchdown the acft bounced and floated about 600 ft before a 2nd touchdown. When the acft could not be stopped on the short grass rwy, it was groundlooped to stay on the arpt. During the groundloop the left gear collapsed. This was the plts 1st landing in this acft on a short grass rwy. Previouslandings were on hard surface rwys of 3000 ft or more.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3494X
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1162
- Airframe hours
- 2,900
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William F. Carroll
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 1, 1983 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- CSG · Columbus, OH
- Airport
- PVT · Joe Mathous, runway 32, 1,588 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 142 total · 61 in this make and model · 88 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CSG, 18 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.