FTW86FRG10 · Mooney M20C
Mooney M20C · Accident: airframe, component or system failure en route
From Aero Valley Airport (52F) to Pleasanton Municipal Airport (PEZ)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW86FRG10
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Mooney M20C
- 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
- N7025V
- Operator
- Robert R. Owen · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Aero Valley Airport (52F), Roanoke, TXTo Pleasanton Municipal Airport (PEZ), Pleasanton, TX
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, installation, selected
- Pilot in command › Aircraft handling, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Visual/aural perception
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT WAS DESTROYED DURING A FORCED LANDING. WHILE EN ROUTE OVER THE SAN ANTONIO AREA THE PLT NOTICED A FEW DROPS OF WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE PRECIPITATION ON THE WINDSHIELD. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, IT WAS DETERMINED THE DROPS ON THE WINDSHIELD WERE OIL. THE QUANTITY OF OIL INCREASED TO A POINT WHERE THE WINDSHIELD WAS COVERED. THE PLT OPENED THE LEFT COCKPIT WINDOW TO GAIN VISIBILITY AND A LANDING WAS ATTEMPTED ON RWY 27 AT STINSON MUNICIPAL. THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN LONGWITH THE LEFT WING CONTACTING THE RWY. THE TOWER ADVISED THE PLT TO GO AROUND. THE PLT ADDED FULL PWR, MADE A LEFT CIRCLING TURN AND THE ACFT CONTACTED THE RWY AT THE INTERSECTION OF 27 AND 32. THE PLT STATED THAT DURING THE GO AROUND OIL PRESSURE WAS NOTED AS ZERO. POST ACCIDENT INSPECTION DISCLOSED A CRACKED BRASS PLATED FITTING ON THE PROP GOVENOR OIL LINE AT THE FRONT RIGHT SIDE OF THE ENG. THE FITTING WAS CRACKED THROUGH 3/4 OF ITS CIRCUMFERENCE. THE MANUFACTURERSPART IS ALUMINUM AND NOT BRASS PLATED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW86FRG10
- Event ID
- 20001214X38418
- Case number
- FTW86FRG10
- 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: 1ac75e622527becab9e35a2cfec7ca0e3822fef5c2b90d9f8260feca3d436d23; retrieved 2026-09-22T01:34:33.503Z.