- Date
- November 6, 1991, 10:35 local (15:35 UTC)
- Place
- Basye, VA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9326VMooney 20F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911106052049A
- Case key
- 11750
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot misjudged the altitude and distance to the runway. Factors were the gusty weather conditions and the pilot's delay in executing a go around.
Analysis
The pilot was on a local flight that originated at manassas, Virginia, then he decided to land at sky bryce airport, Basye, Virginia. It was his first time at this airport. He completed one landing on runway 23 without incident. He stayed in the traffic pattern for the second landing and during final approach at about 100 feet above the ground he realized that he would undershoot the runway. He applied power to execute a go around, however the aircraft impacted the ground about 300 feet short of the runway and slid to a stop in a creek. A witness reported gusty conditions at the time of the accident.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9326V
- Reported as
- Mooney 20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 700002
- Airframe hours
- 2,741
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leo J Killen
- Registered owner
- Leo J Killen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1991 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- W92 · Sky Bryce, VA
- Airport
- W92 · Sky Bryce, runway 23, 2,240 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 916 total · 204 in this make and model · 810 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHO, 43 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.
Other investigations on N9326V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.