Mooney M20F, N6467Q: Fatal accident occurred July 19, 2014 in Lake Placid, New York - Aviation News & Events since 2009 - The Kathryn Report - Kathryn's Report

My dad linked me this because we had to do a go-around the first time being there this winter. Had it been a humid-summer day like this probably was, we may have met a similar conclusion.

The cause seems weird though. Multiple articles are saying that failure to retract the flaps played a part (so they think), but that doesn't make much sense to me. To clear those trees i'd make SURE I had mine down at least a bit until I cleared the trees on the other end and could easily make it above the surrounding peaks.

I feel like the more likely scenario is they added full power and retracted the flaps too quickly, stalled, and crashed.

Regardless, RIP.