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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Maule M-4-220C · Kotzebue, AK · August 31, 2001

Date
August 31, 2001 · 14:00 local
Place
Kotzebue, AK
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N10157
Reported as
Maule M4220C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,900 total175 in this make and model200 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) Pilot landed on a gravel bar in the wulik river. The main landing gear dropped in a soft spot & the prop contacted the gravel. Aircraft did not overturn. An airworthy prop was flown in and installed by paul buckel, then the aircraft was flown out to otz.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT LANDED ON A GRAVEL BAR IN THE WULIK RIVER. THE MAIN LANDING GEAR DROPPED IN A SOFT SPOT & THE PROP CONTACTED THE GRAVEL. AIRCRAFT DID NOT OVERTURN. AN AIRWORTHY PROP WAS FLOWN IN AND INSTALLED BY PAUL BUCKEL, THEN THE AIRCRAFT WAS FLOWN OUT TO OTZ.