- Date
- February 11, 1984, 13:23 local (19:23 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1987YMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840211003499A
- Case key
- 12548
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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 passenger reported that on takeoff he heard a bang & saw a puff of blue smoke. The plt pulled the pwr off but did not lower the nose so the passenger, who had flt experience, pushed the nose forward & impacted the rwy. Post crash examination of the eng revealed the spark plug on #3 cyl was loose & had damaged threads. All other eng components were normal.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1987Y
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 274
- Airframe hours
- 2,504
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bernard J. Smolka
- Registered owner
- U.A., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1983 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- CLE · Cleveland, OH
- Airport
- CLE · Cleveland Hopkins, runway 23R, 6,242 × 200 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE
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 N1987Y · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.