- Date
- October 2, 1983, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Elberta, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5646DMaule M-6-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831002056889A
- Case key
- 6357
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt took off with a passenger, who was also a plt, but was not performing as such on this flt. After returning to the arpt, the plt landed on the north-south rwy. He stated that during the landing roll, he encountered a x-wind that caused the acft to drift to the left side of the grass strip. There was a parallel strip of smooth ground beside the rwy. The plt stated that he thought the ground beside the rwy was hard, packed dirt, so he allowed the acft to continue off the grass area. However, the soil was soft. Subsequently, the gear dug in & the acft nosed over. Aprx 18 mi east northeast at pensacola, FL, the wind was from 140 deg at 6 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5646D
- Reported as
- Maule M-6-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7387C
- Airframe hours
- 229
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-W1ASD, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Fliegen Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 17, 1982 · 81 hours before
- Departed
- HKS · Jackson, MS
- Airport
- Miles Neumann, runway 36, 4,000 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,822 total · 106 in this make and model · 1,654 as pilot in command · 81 in the last 90 days · 31 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 18 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.