- Date
- July 17, 1991, 22:30 local (Jul 18, 1991, 04:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mccall, ID
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N231ASMooney M-20K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910717028979A
- Case key
- 41486
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Probable cause
An on ground collision with an animal during the landing roll. A factor to the accident was: a dark night condition.
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
During the landing roll on a dark night, the airplane collided with a deer that had walked onto the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N231AS
- Reported as
- Mooney M-20K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-0106
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-GB, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John G. Mcmanus
- Registered owner
- John G. Mcmanus
- Departed
- BOI · Boise, ID
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MYL · Mccall, runway 34, 5,000 × 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,305 total · 659 in this make and model · 1,035 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 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.