- Date
- March 10, 1991, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Loa, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7108UMooney M20C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910310004889A
- Case key
- 41397
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain airspeed on takeoff climb in a turn resulting in an inadvertnent stall and subsequent in flight collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was a crosswind with gusts.
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 private pilot conducted a takeoff from runway 31 with a crosswind and gust reported between 35-40 mph from the west. A left turn out was initiated. The airplane stalled and collided with terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7108U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2766
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AID, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Garland L. Bray
- Registered owner
- Garland L. Bray
- Destination
- Albuquerque, NM
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 38U · Wayne Wonderland, runway 31, 5,900 × 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 963 total · 430 in this make and model · 929 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- 4HV, 42 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.