- Date
- December 4, 1991, 19:30 local (Dec 5, 1991, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Morris, MN
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N201QBMooney M20J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911204054659A
- Case key
- 15356
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Probable cause
Failure to maintain proper glidepath. A factor related to the accident is the failure to perform remedial action, the dark night, and the snow shower in progress at the time.
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
Pilot was attempting to land at night in a snow shower. Left wingtip hit snowbank at approach end of runway when pilot flared for landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N201QB
- Reported as
- Mooney M20J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-0383
- Airframe hours
- 2,705
- Engine
- Lycoming I0-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles Schmidt
- Registered owner
- Morris Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 19, 1991 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 3KK · Kankakee, IL
- Airport
- MOX · Morris Municipal, runway 32, 3,400 × 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
- 75
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,646 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 10,546 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 1 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AXN, 25 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.
Other investigations on N201QB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.