ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 293729
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| Date: | Sunday 29 May 2005 |
| Time: | 09:30 LT |
| Type: |  Mooney M20K |
| Owner/operator: | Martin Lawrence |
| Registration: | N928MB |
| MSN: | 25-0859 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2706 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental TSIO-360-GB |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Englewood, Colorado -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Denver-Centennial Airport, CO (APA/KAPA) |
| Camarillo Airport, CA (KCMA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the pilot, he was in instrument meteorological conditions and climbing to his cruise altitude when the horizontal situation indicator (HSI) failed. He became disoriented, the airplane got into an unusual attitude, and he lost control of the airplane. When the airplane broke out of the clouds, it was descending rapidly, and he pulled back hard on the control yoke to arrest the descent. During the recovery, the airplane's structural limitations were exceeded and the airplane was overstressed. According to a telephone interview with a mechanic who replaced the HSI at Duncan Aviation, a repair shop located at APA, a plastic gear in the HSI was "stripped" and the heading bug caused the compass card to "hang-up."
Probable Cause: the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane and the pilot's improper use of unusual attitude recovery procedure. Contributing factors were the failure of the HSI and the clouds.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DEN05LA139
History of this aircraft
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 12:51 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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