- Date
- November 25, 1987, 23:20 local (Nov 26, 1987, 04:20 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Pierce, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7739MMooney M-22
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871125082139A
- Case key
- 32097
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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
Plt stated that on landing roll at approximately 30 to 35 knots the nose landing gear began to shimmy and turn to the left. Full right brake and rudder could not correct the left turning tendency of the aircraft. The aircraft ran off the left side of the runway into sand and the nose landing gear separated and the main landing gears collapsed. Post accident inspection of the nose landing gear revealed no evidence to indicate the cause of the shimmy and left turning tendency.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7739M
- Reported as
- Mooney M-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 700006
- Airframe hours
- 1,414
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-A1A, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stonyridge Realty Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 1987 · 74 hours before
- Departed
- DAB · Daytona Beach, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FPR · St. Lucie International, runway 9, 5,000 × 200 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 827 total · 497 in this make and model · 662 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 110° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB, 10 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.