- Date
- August 25, 1990, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Glenwood Spring, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N74562Mooney M20B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900825045219A
- Case key
- 17993
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Probable cause
Wrong runway selection by the pilot, resulting in an overrun and a collision with a fence during landing roll. The prevailing tailwind, runway information and markings, and the pilot's failure to use the proper touchdown point are factors.
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 private pilot landed midfield with a gusting tailwind. The plane was unable to stop on the 3,000 foot asphalt runway, and overran into a soft terrain. The plane was damaged when it ran through a fence and the nose gear collapsed in the soft terrain. The firewall was bent. The pilot said he flew the tail wind landing because he had read a sign on the airport warning of 'legal' consequences of landing on other than runway 32, which he took to mean regardless of wind direction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74562
- Reported as
- Mooney M20B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1873
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Haringer Singh Nanda
- Departed
- GNB · Granby, CO
- Airport
- GWS · Glenwood Springs, runway 32, 3,300 × 50 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 408 total · 120 in this make and model · 278 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 17 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.