- Date
- June 29, 1990, 11:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Luling, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9376VMooney M-20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900629023139A
- Case key
- 23147
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Probable cause
Loss of control in-flight due to the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed. Factors would be the high density altitude and the tree that he hit.
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
Field elevation was 550 feet, and density altitude was 2,500 feet. The pilot stalled his airplane on final approach to his private airstrip, was unable to recover and hit a tree and then the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9376V
- Reported as
- Mooney M-20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 700014
- Airframe hours
- 3,760
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert B./Betty J. Sutherland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 1990 · 17 hours before
- Airport
- runway 14, 1,400 × 35 ft, grass/turf
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 801 total · 15 in this make and model · 630 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.