Since a number of posters have indicated an interest in Michael Weinstein's (aka steingar) prop strike accident in the V35B gear collapse thread, I thought I would move that separate discussion to its own thread.
This from a thread in mooneyspace in December 2017 titled "About time I fessed up" (
https://mooneyspace.com/topic/23693-i-should-really-think-about-giving-up-this-aviation-thing/#comment-376115)
"August 2016 I was delivering my Mooney M20c to my mechanic, Bobby Norman, at the Parr airport (42I) in Zanesville Ohio. I had interaction with Bobby years ago, and he came highly recommended by a number of local Mooney owners. I had thought the field was about 2300 feet (wrong, more on that later) so coming in over the trees I pulled the power to idle, put it in a forward slip and came down. 75mph over the numbers, flared and BANG!. Hardest landing I'd ever done in anything. At the top of the bounce I had a choice, and decided to ride it out. I was uncomfortable trying to go around at a short strip in that predicament. The aircraft bounced a couple more times and stopped, and I taxied back. I had struck the prop in that landing, quite badly.
The prop was bent asymmetrically, and the craskshaft busted. I hit hard enough that the force went through the gear into the Johnson bar, wrecking the mechanism that holds it in place (Bobby only figured that part out when he started taxiing. He said it was quite exciting)."