- Date
- August 15, 1984, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- St. Simon, GA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6073QMooney 20E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840815040699A
- Case key
- 31176
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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
On landing roll, acft swerved to left & departed rwy surface into grass. Plt applied full pwr and attempted go-around, headed aprx 20 degrees left of runway alignment. Acft became airborne, angling toward ramp and hangar complex. Witnessesobserved acft assume extreme nose-up attitude, arpx 30-40 ft AGL, drop off abruptly on left wing and descend to ground impact. Plt witness described sounds of erratic braking when acft was on runway. Post-mishap exam of brakes showed brakes functional, full fluid. Nose gear steering condition could not be determined due to impact damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6073Q
- Reported as
- Mooney 20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 902
- Airframe hours
- 1,017
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ricuardi Construction Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 8, 1984 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- Elizabeth City, NJ
- Destination
- SSI
- Airport
- SSI · Malcolm Mckinnon, runway 15, 3,314 × 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 898 total · 883 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SSI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.