- Date
- November 18, 1989, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Georgetown, SC
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1253XMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891118045919A
- Case key
- 8181
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor was the student's lack of recent experience.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot reported that he lost control of the airplane during landing and veered off of the runway. The flight was his first solo. Control was regained byut the airplane collided with a first solo. Control was regained but the airplane collided with a dirt berm which was left from the construction of a drainage ditch. The airplane then nosed over. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions. His report listed 17 total flight hours within the previous 90 days and no nflight hours within 30 days of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1253X
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 126
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Glenn T. Russ
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 4, 1989 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- CRE · N. Myrtle Beach, SC
- Destination
- VNC · Venice, FL
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 470 total · 396 in this make and model · 337 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHS, 35 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.