MIA94FA031 · Mooney M20E
North Florida Flight Center Mooney M20E · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG) to Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA94FA031
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Mooney M20E
- Aircraft type
- Mooney M20
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N9241V
- Operator
- North Florida Flight Center
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG)To Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Maneuvering
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall/mush
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall/mush, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
RECORDS INDICATED THE AIRPLANE HAD NOT BEEN OPERATED SINCE IT HAD BEEN REFUELED 2 DAYS BEFORE THE ACCIDENT. WITNESSES OBSERVED IT MANEUVERING IN THE AREA BEFORE THE ACCIDENT. TWO WITNESSES REPORTED THAT THE AIRPLANE ENTERED A NOSE DOWN ATTITUDE & CRASHED. IMPACT OCCURRED IN A NOSE DOWN, LEFT WING LOW ATTITUDE. BOTH FUEL TANKS WERE RUPTURED DURING IMPACT, THEREFORE THE AMOUNT OF FUEL ON BOARD WAS NOT DETERMINED, BUT AN ODOR OF FUEL WAS NOTED AT THE ACCIDENT SITE. RESIDUAL FUEL WAS REMAINING IN THE FUEL LINES. EXAM OF THE ENGINE & FLIGHT CONTROLS REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF PREIMPACT MECHANICAL FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION. TOXICOLOGY TESTS OF THE PILOT'S BLOOD SHOWED 0.022 UG/ML OF CHLORPHENIRAMINE & 0.469 UG/ML OF PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE. ACCORDING TO AN FAA TOXICOLOGIST, THESE LEVELS WERE AT A THERAPEUTIC RANGE & COULD HAVE RESULTED IN DROWSINESS.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED, WHILE MANEUVERING AT LOW ALTITUDE, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE LACK OF ALTITUDE FOR RECOVERY FROM A STALL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA94FA031
- Event ID
- 20001211X13775
- Case number
- MIA94FA031
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e0fb6ea1bee9e9bf243ff8d7611aaa9e2eb300dd84fb21a18a6655dbcb7eb2a5; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:18:07.115Z.