- Date
- July 4, 2023, 16:00 local (Jul 5, 2023, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kusatan, AK · Gravel bar along a river
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N51592Maule M-5-210C
- 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
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20230704014409A
- Case key
- 192578
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, which resulted in a bounced landing and an encounter with soft terrain, and 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 reported that during the landing roll out on a remote, gravel/sand bar, the main landing gear wheels encountered an area of uneven sand and the airplane bounced and pitched into the air. She attempted to correct to no avail. Subsequently, when the airplane touched down from the bounce, the wheels dug into the sand, and the airplane nosed over, resulting in substantial damage to the wing struts. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51592
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-210C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6023C
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 2,640
- Engine
- Continental IO-360 D33A, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 9, 2023 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- EDF · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE · McArthur River Gravel Bar, runway N/A, 1,500 × 50 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Military, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 4, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 2,050 total · 40 in this make and model · 1,800 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.26 inHg
- Observed at
- PASX, 46 nm away
- METAR
- PASX 042356Z AUTO 26009KT 10SM SCT095 12/07 A3026 RMK AO2 SLP252 T01170067 10150 20117 53010
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 26, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.