CHI87LA213 · Mooney 20K
Kemas Mooney 20K · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Nashville International Airport (BNA) to 3HW
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI87LA213
- 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
- 0 · 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Mooney 20K
- Aircraft type
- Mooney 20
- 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
- N10816
- Operator
- Kemas
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Nashville International Airport (BNA), Nashville, TNTo 3HW
- 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
- Approach · VFR go-around
- 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 › Wrong runway, selected
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
UPON ARRIVAL AT HOWELL AIRPORT THE PILOT SET UP A CLOSE APPROACH FOR LANDING ON RUNWAY 36 BECAUSE OF DETERIORATING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO GET CURRENT WIND CONDITIONS AT THE AIRPORT FROM UNICOM BUT DECIDED TO CONTINUE THE APPROACH. DURING THE LANDING FLARE THE PILOT STATED THE AIRCRAFT 'FAILED' TO LOSE AIRSPEED AND CONTINUED TO FLY. THE PILOT PROCEEDED TO RETRACT THE FLAPS BUT THE AIRCRAFT REMAINED AIRBORNE. THE PILOT THEN ADDED FULL POWER FOR A GO-AROUND, SIGHTED TREES LOCATED AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY, PULLED BACK ON THE YOKE AND STALLED THE AIRCRAFT INTO THE TREES. SHORTLY AFTER THE ACCIDENT WINDS WERE REPORTED TO BE FROM THE SOUTH AT 12 KNOTS WITH GUSTS TO 15 KNOTS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI87LA213
- Event ID
- 20001213X31757
- Case number
- CHI87LA213
- 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: 136f89c79ddd05fb05f7f6bcef95e675ca63637bb137b8db5560e57378634260; retrieved 2026-09-23T12:24:58.936Z.