- Date
- August 4, 1992, 12:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sedona, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9124LMooney M20-M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920804029029A
- Case key
- 27717
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and delayed go-around decision. Contributing to the accident was a failure of the pilot to attain the touch-down during a down wind landing.
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 certificated private pilot and a passenger were landing at an intermediate stop on a personal cross country flight. The airport landing advisory received by the pilot included information that a seven knot tail wind was present for the runway in use. The airplane overshot the intended touch down point. The pilot lowered the nose for touch down and the airplane began to bounce. After the second bounce, the pilot added power to begin a go-around and raised the landing gear. The airplane did not climb and the pilot decided to abort the go-around. The airplane settled onto the runway and was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9124L
- Reported as
- Mooney M20-M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 270076
- Airframe hours
- 370
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-AFIA, 270 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mcpartland Enterprises Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mcpartland Enterprises Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 10, 1991 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- SRR · Ruidoso, NM
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SEZ · Sedona, runway 3, 5,131 × 75 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
- 72
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 810 total · 580 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.