- Date
- July 25, 2000, 10:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Walden, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N200UBFudold Avid - Magnum
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 18, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000725005359A
- Case key
- 49816
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent stall/mush during a go-around attempt. A contributing factor was the high density altitude weather condition.
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 pilot said that during a landing attempt, the airspeed got low and he flared a 'little high.' He applied full power to perform a go-around, but the airplane mushed to the ground. The impact sequence bent both wings and wrinkled the fuselage. The weather conditions at the time of the accident were as follows: temperature 77 degrees Fahrenheit; altimeter setting 30.28 inches of mercury; density altitude 10,799 feet (elevation 8,149 feet).
Factual narrative
On July 25, 2000, approximately 1015 mountain daylight time, a Fudold Avid Magnum, N200UB, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain during a go-around attempt at Jackson County Airport, Walden, Colorado. The private pilot and his passenger were not injured. The airplane was being operated by the pilot under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local flight that originated approximately 1 hour 25 minutes before the accident. No flight plan had been filed.
The pilot said that during a landing attempt, the airspeed got low and he flared a "little high." He applied full power to perform a go-around, but the airplane "mushed" to the ground. The impact sequence bent both wings and wrinkled the fuselage.
The weather conditions at the time of the accident were as follows: temperature 77 degrees Fahrenheit; altimeter setting 30.28 inches of mercury; density altitude 10,799 feet (elevation 8,149 feet).
Aircraft
- Registration
- N200UB
- Reported as
- Fudold Avid - Magnum (AVID - MAG)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- M-19
- Airframe hours
- 127
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mark J. Dunning
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 2000 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 33V
- Airport
- 33V · Jackson County Airport, runway 16, 4,500 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 244 total · 22 in this make and model · 139 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 55 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HDN, 46 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.