- Date
- February 24, 1988, 01:00 local (07:00 UTC)
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6228UMooney M-20C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880224008279A
- Case key
- 14060
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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
While executing touch and go landings the pilot's attention was diverted inside the aircraft while adjusting the interior lights to determine the position of the flaps. He lost control of the aircraft and it departed the runway striking a snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6228U
- Reported as
- Mooney M-20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2146
- Airframe hours
- 2,506
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jack Uhl & Allen Joscher
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1987
- Departed
- MIC
- Airport
- MIC · Crystal, runway 23R, 2,499 × 75 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 184 total · 102 in this make and model · 136 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSP, 13 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.