- Date
- March 10, 1983, 21:45 local (Mar 11, 1983, 03:45 UTC)
- Place
- La Grange, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9331MMooney M20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830311007309A
- Case key
- 20830
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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 plt reported that during the apch, the acft was high & had excessive airspeed, which resulted in a long landing. After touchdown, he applied full brakes, but was unable to stop on the remaining rwy. The acft continued off the end of the rwy, went down an incline & went into a group of small trees, damaging both wings & the propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9331M
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1263
- Airframe hours
- 50,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Earl P. Martin III
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1982 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- DWH · Houston, TX
- Airport
- 9R6 · Guenther Municipal, runway 18, 3,200 × 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 358 total · 158 in this make and model · 295 as pilot in command · 94 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.