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Tue, Jul 29, 2003

Sundowner Damaged in Aborted Go-Around

A planned-routine trip from Oshkosh to Madison (WI) on Friday turned into a recovery effort, as the student pilot, getting out of Oshkosh to hone landing skills with some touch and goes, put the plane down on the runway.

The way our ANN News-Spy (who knows the instructor) told us, the instructor, noting that the flaps had been retracted, and things were squared away for the takeoff, asked the usual, "Do you think we'll get airborne again in time?" question, which apparently set the student to thinking.

A second (or maybe two) later, the student thought the answer should have been, "no," and pulled the power. Seven hundred feet of black stripes now mark the last part of the runway, leading to some torn-up turf, and then some broken trees. Eventually, one comes to the crumpled Beech, in which neither pilot was injured.

The nose gear is now part of the aft cowling; the motor mount is broken; the prop had time to stop, and it stopped in the horizontal position, though a post-crash look showed a 1/32" blade-to-blade runout. The starboard wing is also in the swept-back position, with additional damage.

Winter, for the owner/instructor, will be like the Cubs' off-season: rebuilding.

**   Report created 7/28/2003   Record 26  **
IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 9361S        Make/Model: BE23      Description: 23 Musketeer, Sundowner
  Date: 07/25/2003     Time: 2210
  Event Type: Accident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Substantial
LOCATION
  City: MADISON   State: WI   Country: US
DESCRIPTION
  ACFT LANDED LONG AND RAN OFF THE END OF THE RUNWAY, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, MADISON, WI
INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:  1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   Y
                 # Pass:   1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
WEATHER: METAR KMSN 2552210Z 18015KT 10SM CLR 27/19 A3001
OTHER DATA
  Activity: Training      Phase: Landing      Operation: General Aviation
  Departed: UNK                         Dep Date:    Dep. Time:
  Destination: UNK                      Flt Plan: UNK          Wx Briefing: U
  Last Radio Cont: UNK
  Last Clearance: UNK
  FAA FSDO: MILWAUKEE, WI  (GL13)                 Entry date: 07/28/2003


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