M20E Emergency Landing west Houston

[redbaron1982]

Does anyone has more info?

 

 

[redbaron1982]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/562249

[exM20K]

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N523MW

NIght forced landing.  well done.

[TheAv8r]

I don't think any more details are needed other than he faced a truly nightmare scenario: engine failure, at night, shortly after departure, from an airport that has nothing but trees on the south end of it, and walked away. Well done sir.

[exM20K]

The descent rate suggests this engine was still producing power.

In some ways, a rough or failing, but still running, engine complicates the ADM process: will it hold together long enough to return to IWS? 

If the engine is producing no power and cannot be restarted, then you have only to pick a place on the ground to put the plane.

-dan

[redbaron1982]

55 minutes ago, exM20K said:

The descent rate suggests this engine was still producing power.

In some ways, a rough or failing, but still running, engine complicates the ADM process: will it hold together long enough to return to IWS? 

If the engine is producing no power and cannot be restarted, then you have only to pick a place on the ground to put the plane.

-dan

Yeah, looks like he was fixated to returning to IWS... 11R was closer and he would have made the field. 11R has a nice asphalt runway, I landed there several times while doing my training.

Anyway, it is easy to find the best course of action when seating in a chair in front of a computer, lol.

Great job by the pilot!