- Date
- August 17, 2007, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9153YMooney M20M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA-AGL-ROC
- FAA report
- 20070817823929A
- Case key
- 66835
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Probable cause
The pilot not maintaining directional control of the aircraft during the crosswind landing. Factors were the crosswind and the runway lights that were impacted.
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 aircraft's left landing gear exited the runway during a crosswind landing and the left wing impacted runway lights. The pilot reported that he brought the landing gear back onto the runway and resumed the rollout and taxi. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The aircraft's left landing gear exited the runway during a crosswind landing and its left wing impacted runway lights. The pilot reported that he brought the landing gear back onto the runway and resumed the rollout and taxi. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9153Y
- Reported as
- Mooney M20M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-0125
- Airframe hours
- 1,085.7
- Engine
- Textron Lycoming TIO-540, 270 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- AKN Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 2007
- Departed
- MCD · Mackinac City, MI
- Destination
- GRR · Grand Rapids, MI
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
- 46
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 356 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 31.10 inHg
- Observed at
- GRR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.