Mooney M20C N3496X

Summary

On 20 January 1987 at about 22:55 local time, a Mooney M20C registered N3496X, operated by Abbas Ahmadirmabadi, was involved in an accident near Highgate, Vermont, United States. 2 people were on board and one died, one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

20 January 1987 at 22:55

Classification

Accident

Location

Highgate, Vermont, United States

Nearest airport

Franklin County (1B7)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Mooney M20C

Registration

N3496X

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Abbas Ahmadirmabadi

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Montpelier → Montreal, Canada

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Bright

NTSB number

NYC87FA063

1 person died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ACCORDING TO THE SURVIVING PAX, A SNOWSHOWER WAS ENCTRD, SO THE PLT REVERSED COURSE & DIVERTED TO ANOTHER ARPT. DRG A NGT APCH TO LND, THE PAX NOTED A WHITE LIGHT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RWY. (A VASI LIGHT SYS WAS INSTALLED FOR THAT RWY.) THE PLT ABORTED THE LNDG, BUT DRG A GO-AROUND, THE ACFT STRUCK TREETOPS APRX 1500' BEYOND THE DEP END OF THE RWY & CRASHED. NO PREIMPACT PART FAILURE OR MALFUCTION WAS EVIDENT. THE LNDG GEAR & GEAR HANDLE WERE FND IN THE DOWN PSN, THE FLAPS WERE IN A RETRACTED PSN & THE ENG CTLS WERE FND AT FULL POWER SETTINGS. ONLY 3.4 HRS OF THE PLT'S FLT TIME WAS RPRTD IN HI PERFORMANCE OR COMPLEX ACFT & NO ENDORSEMENT TO OPERATE SUCH ACFT WAS FND.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.