Mooney Crashes Into Power Lines in Gaithersburg, MD

Let's see:
Conditions: 200 ft overcast, 1 mile visibility.
Lowest approach conditions: 300 ft and 1 mile.
2 miles from the runway, the plane (per the RNAV approach plate) should not have been that low - it should have been at 1280 feet until JONAX intersection.

What was the pilot doing 689 feet? He's way too low - and should have gone full power and taken the missed approach.

I can't wait for the NTSB investigation. Something isn't right here.

Did the pilot hit the wires and "skid" into the tower? I would think hitting the tower directly would have caused more damage to both plane and tower.

Once again, enough money to buy a plane, not enough sense to fly it.

How was this not catastrophic? Maybe he came in parallel to the wires?

N201RF

Listen to the ATC communication w/ the pilot that is available on YouTube.

These are two lucky people! They should run out and buy lotto tix!

Another URL that is not blocked by a Pay Wall! https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/before-a-small-plane-crashed-into-power-lines-and-tower-in-maryland-an-air-traffic-controller-warned-pilot-his-altitude-reading-was-too-low/

Well this lawyer can now defend himself in court from the sure to be impending multi million dollar lawsuits.

On Sunday, November 27, 2022, an MFC Corp Mooney M20J departed Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, New York at 3:00 p.m., before crashing

Thank you

There's a lot of reasons why this "should've" been worse, thankfully it wasn't!

Trying to take a peak under low overcast? A Cheyenne went missed before this fiasco. He should have went to an alternate. YMMV.

I saw that photo a couple days ago, I thought it was an RC plane…

Just hanging around