- Date
- July 22, 2011, 21:00 local (Jul 23, 2011, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cresson, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1149DMooney M20K
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Fort Worth FSDO
- FAA report
- 20110723029029A
- Case key
- 81552
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate recovery from a bounced landing and subsequent failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
On the pilot’s second landing attempt, the airplane landed hard on the main landing gear and bounced. The pilot lost control during the bounce, resulting in the airplane touching down hard on the nose landing gear. The nose landing gear collapsed and the airplane slid sideways off of the runway. The airplane impacted obstructions and both main landing gear legs collapsed, causing substantial damage to the fuselage and the left wing. The pilot reported that his airspeed was too fast and that the accident would not have happened if he had aborted the landing after the first hard bounce.
Factual narrative
On the pilot’s second landing attempt, the airplane landed hard on the main landing gear and bounced. The pilot lost control during the bounce, resulting in the airplane touching down hard on the nose landing gear. The nose gear collapsed and the airplane slid sideways off of the runway. The airplane struck obstructions and both main landing gear legs collapsed. The impact caused substantial damage to the fuselage and the left wing. The pilot reported that his airspeed must have been too fast on the first touchdown and that the accident would not have happened if he had just aborted the landing after the first hard bounce.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1149D
- Reported as
- Mooney M20K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-0604
- Airframe hours
- 2,994
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-520, 305 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 16, 2011
- Departed
- BRO · Brownwood, TX
- Destination
- 50F · Cresson, TX
- Airport
- 50F · Bourland Field Airport, runway 17, 4,092 × 60 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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 25, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 30 in this make and model · 3,000 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- KGDJ, 14 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 14, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 397 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.