20050618014739I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Maule MT-7-235 · Montevallo, AL · June 18, 2005

Date
June 18, 2005 · 14:52 local
Place
Montevallo, AL
Airport
Flying X Ranch Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N129CP
Reported as
Maule MT7235
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,600 total16 in this make and model27 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) The pilot landed fast and hard with a right quartering tail wind estimated to be about 5 knots. The airplane bounced and came down on the nose gear causing it to collapse rearward.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE PILOT LANDED FAST AND HARD WITH A RIGHT QUARTERING TAIL WIND ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 5 KNOTS. THE AIRPLANE BOUNCED AND CAME DOWN ON THE NOSE GEAR CAUSING IT TO COLLAPSE REARWARD.