- Date
- March 28, 1983, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96446Mooney M20-K
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 12125
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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 acft landed hard and bounced enough to make the propeller hit the rwy during landing. The pilot had made an ILS approach and when the acft broke out of the clouds it crossed the rwy threshold at about 70 KTS. At 10 ft AGL the pilot cut the power, flared, and the acft landed hard. The pilot was able to keep direction relatively straight through several bounces after the initial touchdown. The pilot said the accident would not have happened if he had maintained some power on the acft until touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96446
- Reported as
- Mooney M20-K
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 509
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-GB, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tri-State Drilling
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1983
- Departed
- FCM · Minneapolis, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IND · Indianapolis, runway 31, 7,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,630 total · 407 in this make and model · 1,533 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND