- Date
- April 4, 1991, 09:46 local (14:46 UTC)
- Place
- Blue Ash, OH
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5810CMooney M20J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910404008949A
- Case key
- 36898
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain proper altitude and airspeed during a landing approach, which resulted in a stall and spin at too low an altitude to recover. A factor related to the accident was the lack of recent flight experience by the pilot.
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 pilot of the Mooney M20J, N5810C, was delivering his airplane to the Blue Ash airport, Ohio for minor repairs, when he crashed in a wooded area. He had called the airport for landing information minutes before the accident. An FAA inspector said, 'I would estimate the altitude to be between 200 and 300 feet above the ground...the aircraft was in a nose high attitude, then went into a spin...I then saw the aircraft had crashed.' The location of the accident would have been a close base leg for a VFR landing pattern. The pilot's flight log showed 3 flights in 1989, 2 flights in 1990, and 1 flight in 1991, all in the Mooney M20J.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5810C
- Reported as
- Mooney M20J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-1558
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360A3B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hahne Enterprises
- Registered owner
- Hahne Enterprises
- Departed
- I69 · Batavia, OH
- Destination
- I77 · Blue Ash, OH
- Airport
- I77 · Blue Ash, runway 24, 3,500 × 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 7 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 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.