- Date
- July 24, 1992, 12:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hendersonville, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6785NMooney M20G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920724030019A
- Case key
- 8634
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Probable cause
The pilot's delay in executing a recovery from the bounced landing and his inadvertent stall during the initial climb after and landing was aborted. Factors were the excessive landing speed and the high density altitude.
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 airplane landed, nose wheel first, at an excessive landing speed and porpoised several times. A witness stated that when the airplane was about 500 feet from the end of the runway, the landing was aborted. High trees bounded the departure end of the runway. According to the witness the airplane was unable to climb over the trees and stalled. It then collided with the trees & the ground, with the engine at 'full power.' The airplane was found in a vertical nose down attitude. It was supported in that position by the thick woods. The pilot said that the engine accelerated without his input & that the prop governor cable was found broken at the control panel end. The prop governor arm was found in the full increase position. Additionally, the density altitude was calculated to be 3500 feet MSL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6785N
- Reported as
- Mooney M20G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 680095
- Airframe hours
- 2,362
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Spencer, Robert M.
- Registered owner
- Spence Air Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 7, 1992 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Airport
- 0A7 · Hendersonville, runway 14, 3,100 × 40 ft, macadam
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 660 total · 300 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AVL, 10 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.