- Date
- October 27, 1984, 12:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Homer, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5645DMaule M-6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19841027061069A
- Case key
- 4442
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Shortly after touchdown the acft veered left. Right rudder was applied causing the acft to over correct back to the right. In an effort to regain directional control left rudder was applied. The acft ground looped to the right collapsing the left main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5645D
- Reported as
- Maule M-6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7382C
- Airframe hours
- 190
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leo Thibodeaux
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 7, 1984 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HOM · Homer, runway 3, 7,401 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 81 total · 30 in this make and model · 40 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOM, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5645D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.