Our scan of the last 100 Mooney 231 accidents revealed 22 engine power loss events—slightly over half of which were due to something being installed improperly. In most of the remainder, the cause could not be determined.
The 10 runway loss of control accidents were slightly below what we expect to see for nosewheel airplanes. However, about half of them were initiated by pilot induced oscillation events following a bounced landing—a high number. We also noted that virtually all of the accidents on go-arounds came about after the pilot had gone around because of PIO. With more than 15 accident chains that started with PIO, we think avoidance and recovery training is a good idea.