- Date
- October 7, 1990, 21:15 local (Oct 8, 1990, 04:15 UTC)
- Place
- Rio Linda, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N252YDMooney M20K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901007065999A
- Case key
- 27038
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Probable cause
The airplane's ground collision with an unauthorized person who was located on the active runway. A contributing factor was related to the nighttime (light) condition which limited the pilot's ability to see the person prior to the impact.
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 planned 10-minute long local nightime flight the pilot took off and landed at the uncontrolled airport. The airport's runway lights and the airplane's position lights were operating. During the landing rollout the airplane collided with a person who was walking on the runway. The pilot reported that he had not observed the person in sufficient time to avoid the collision. The person, who was fatally injured, had been previously warned by airport management personnel not to walk on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N252YD
- Reported as
- Mooney M20K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-1075
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-MB1, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas K Pischel
- Airport
- 094 · Rio Linda, runway 35, 2,620 × 42 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,270 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- 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.