- Date
- April 24, 1989, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Millersburg, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6129CMaule MX-7-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890424009759A
- Case key
- 8019
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Probable cause
The pilots failure to compensate for the gusty wind conditions during landing.
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
The pilot had completed three landings. While on the fourth attempt, he reported, a gust of wind forced the acft off the south side of rwy 09. The acft weathervaned into the wind and it's right wing collided with an embankment off the right side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6129C
- Reported as
- Maule MX-7-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11057C
- Airframe hours
- 32
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C. Rogers Westlake
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 19, 1989 · 7 hours before
- Airport
- 10G · Holmes County, runway 9, 3,500 × 65 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 437 total · 32 in this make and model · 317 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.