Date:	Saturday 21 August 1982
Time:
Type:	Mooney M20E Super 21
Owner/operator:	A O Barrowclough
Registration:	ZK-CFV
MSN:	230
Year of manufacture:	1964
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Unknown
Location:	Spectacle Lake, Auckland -   New Zealand
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Farm airstrip beside Spectacle Lake
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The Mooney M20E, piloted by A O Barrowclough, did not gain enough speed during takeoff from the short airstrip. A wingtip clipped a fencepost and it flew out across the surface of the lake with the stall warning going. As the aircraft left the shelter of the terrain, a south-westerly tail wind became more apparent, and 250 metres out over the lake the aircraft settled into it, sinking in about 6 metres. Both occupants escaped uninjured. Location: near Mangawhai Heads.

1. http://archway.archives.govt.nz
2. Aircraft Accident Brief 82-077
3. King, John (1995). Aviation Accidents and Disasters. New Zealand Tragedies. Wellington: Grantham House.
4. AHSNZ, 1982, Register Review 19

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


1 August 1965	ZK-CFV	Executive Air Travel (NZ) Ltd		Taupo		unk
28 March 1973	ZK-CFV	Rural Management Ltd	0	Wellington Airport, Wellington 1		min
24 January 1976	ZK-CFV	Rural Management Ltd		near Hamilton Airport, Waikato		unk

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
25-May-2009 21:04	XLerate	Updated
05-Feb-2022 00:40	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Narrative, ]