- Date
- July 26, 2022, 14:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Aniak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4743TMaule M-4-210
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 105597
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for landing which resulted in a nose-over.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, he was landing upslope on an off-airport landing site. During the landing rollout and as he was applying the brakes, the airplane encountered a “divot” on the landing surface. The airplane subsequently nosed-over which resulted in substantial damage to the wings, lift struts, vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4743T
- Reported as
- Maule M-4-210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1008
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 1,757
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-360 SER, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Andrews Nathaniel C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 26, 2022
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PVT · Private, runway 18, 500 × 15 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 1, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 588 total · 233 in this make and model · 518 as pilot in command · 91 in the last 90 days · 57 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 11 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- PANI, 35 nm away
- METAR
- PANI 260956Z AUTO 23011G16KT 10SM -RA FEW008 OVC037 08/06 A3003 RMK AO2 RAB10 SLP161 P0008 T00780061 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 MB in all.