- Date
- March 30, 1986, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lockport, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6433QMooney M20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860330008479A
- Case key
- 30316
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The cross country flight was departing runway 28 at Lockport, new york in strong quartering wind conditions. At rotation and climb out, the pilot retracted the gears and flps. However as the aircraft flps retracted the aircraft began to drop. The nose was pulled up, the arcraft stalled. As the pilot spotted trees ahead, a right bank was made and the aircraft stalled again. The aircraft was put down in small brush and water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6433Q
- Reported as
- Mooney M20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 670512
- Airframe hours
- 3,143
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Howard Hartke
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OGO · Lockport, NY
- Destination
- ELM · Elmira, NY
- Airport
- OGO · Lockport, runway 28, 3,000 × 35 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,243 total · 423 in this make and model · 1,131 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.