- Date
- March 19, 1986, 09:36 local (17:36 UTC)
- Place
- Burbank, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9591MMooney M20F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25097
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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 acft was landed nose low after flying the pattern with a flt control problem. The plt said he noticed the lack of elevator control during initial climb and came back in for a precautionary landing. The elevator was found to be inoperative due to a broken bearing (part #914012-015) the subject of an AD 73-21-01 eff 10/73, concerning lubrication.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9591M
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 670168
- Airframe hours
- 1,586
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James Peck & Associates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 21, 1985 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- BUR · Burbank, CA
- Destination
- TSP · Tehachapi, CA
- Airport
- BUR · Burbank Glendale Pasadena, runway 15, 6,902 × 150 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 286 total · 61 in this make and model · 241 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BUR, 5 nm away