- Date
- July 5, 2008, 20:30 local (Jul 6, 2008, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Howell, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N252EMMooney M20K
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 28, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration - Detroit FSDO
- FAA report
- 20080705841839A
- Case key
- 68640
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 collision with a deer during the takeoff roll. Contributing to the accident was the dusk light condition.
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 impacted a deer during the takeoff roll at dusk. The pilot immediately aborted the takeoff and returned to the ramp area. The left wing, lower fuselage, propeller, and left main landing gear were damaged.
Factual narrative
The airplane impacted a deer during takeoff roll at dusk. The pilot immediately aborted the takeoff and returned to the ramp area. The left wing, lower fuselage, propeller, and left main landing gear were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N252EM
- Reported as
- Mooney M20K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-1027
- Airframe hours
- 2,125
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental TSIO-360-MB2, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Baetcke Lake, PC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 2007
- Departed
- OZW · Howell, MI
- Destination
- OZW · Howell, MI
- Airport
- OZW · Livingston County Airport, runway 13, 5,002 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 1, 2007
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,882 total · 955 in this make and model · 1,743 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- OZW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.