- Date
- December 2, 2012, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Durango, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N562BGMooney M20TN
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 10, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Salt Lake City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20121202026239A
- Case key
- 85714
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his failure to maintain airplane control during the go-around maneuver.
Findings · 2
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
The airplane bounced twice during landing. The pilot said that after the second bounce, he added full throttle for a go-around and that the airplane began to drift to the left side of the runway centerline. Just as the airplane began to climb, the pilot retracted the landing gear and flaps, and the nose of the airplane immediately pitched up. The right wingtip struck the runway surface, and the airplane veered sharply to the right and impacted terrain on the right side of the runway. The impact resulted in the collapse of the landing gear and substantial damage to the engine mount, firewall, fuselage, and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that there was no mechanical malfunction or failure and that he just failed to maintain control of the airplane during the landing.
Factual narrative
The airplane bounced twice during landing. The pilot then added full throttle for a go-around and the airplane began to drift to the left side of the runway centerline. Just as the airplane began to climb the pilot retracted gear and flaps and the nose of the airplane immediately pitched up and the right wingtip struck the runway surface then veered sharply to the right and impacted terrain on the right side of the runway. The impact resulted in the collapse of the landing gear and substantial damage to the engine mount, firewall, fuselage, and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot also reported that there was no mechanical malfunction or failure and that he just failed to maintain control of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N562BG
- Reported as
- Mooney M20TN
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-0031
- Airframe hours
- 214
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-550-G, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2012 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- 00C · Durango, CO
- Destination
- 00C · Durango, CO
- Airport
- 00C · Animas Air Park, runway 19, 5,010 × 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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 24, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,498 total · 108 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 8 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KDRO, 7 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 17, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 289 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.
Other investigations on N562BG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.