- Date
- June 7, 1987, 11:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Maricopa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N115CMooney M-18L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870607060699A
- Case key
- 25607
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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
During a pleasure flight the plt stated that while on final approach to a private airstrip, he noticed some turbulence. On short final the plt stated that a severe wind shear dropped the acft into a ravine. The plt added full pwr, however, the acft did not gain sufficient altitude to clear an embankment. The acft collided with this embankment near the approach end of the rwy shearing off the landing gear and the acft slid down the rwy on its underside.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N115C
- Reported as
- Mooney M-18L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 76
- Airframe hours
- 680
- Engine
- Lycoming O-145B, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard T. Marrott
- Registered owner
- Marrott, Richard T.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1986 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- L45 · Bakersfield, CA
- Airport
- Maricopa, runway 19, 1,400 × ft, gravel
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,600 total · 140 in this make and model · 1,542 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFL, 26 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.