ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 228939
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| Date: | Thursday 12 September 2019 |
| Time: | 11:20 LT |
| Type: |  Mooney M20J 201 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N202JB |
| MSN: | 24-0644 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4439 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-A386D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Freeway Airport (W00), Bowie, Maryland -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Bowie, MD (W00) |
| Charleston-Yeager Airport, WV (CRW/KCRW) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot performed a preflight inspection of the airplane and noted no anomalies. The pilot initiated the takeoff roll and noted that the airplane's airspeed never rose above 40 mph. The airplane was about one-third to halfway down the 2,420-ft runway when the pilot elected to abort the takeoff then overran the departure end of the runway. The airplane broke through the airport perimeter fence and struck a car on a highway just off the airport property, which resulted in the left wing separating from the fuselage.
Postaccident examination of the airplane was unable to find any anomalies with the airspeed indicator, pitot tube, or pitot static system between the left-wing root and the airspeed indicator that would have precluded normal operation. Due to the wing's impact damage, investigators were unable to functionally test the portion of the pitot system between the pitot tube and the left-wing root. It is possible that the pitot static system was blocked during the accident flight, preventing the airspeed indicator from displaying airspeeds above 40 mph and leading the pilot to decide to abort the takeoff, then the blockage became dislodged during the accident sequence.
Probable Cause: A blockage of the pitot static system that preclude the airspeed indicator from displaying speeds greater than 40 mph, which led the pilot to abort the landing and overrun the runway.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=202JB
NTSB ERA19LA269
Location
Images:
Photo: FAA
Media:
The owners brought up the risk of crashes, citing at least 10 that have happened previously, during a public hearing Tuesday on a bill that would allow townhomes and single-family detached dwellings to be built on the airport property. https://t.co/zz8E8sRB5M
— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) September 12, 2019
In this picture you can see the chaotic scene on Rt 50 at freeway airport in Bowie after that plane crashed.
— Alexis Wainwright (@AWainwrightTV) September 12, 2019
There’s currently one lane open. This also isn’t the first time the small planes going to this airport have crashed. (pic via @ABC7Horace) pic.twitter.com/5AoM5O7nwN
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Sep-2019 16:19 | Geno | Added |
| 12-Sep-2019 19:32 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Phase, Source, Embed code] |
| 12-Sep-2019 19:32 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source] |
| 12-Sep-2019 19:35 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 13-Sep-2019 03:56 | RobertMB | Updated [Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Sep-2019 19:08 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2021 07:37 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
| 27-Mar-2021 08:18 | harro | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative, Photo] |
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