- Date
- April 5, 2021, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Jewett, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N811SGMaule MT7
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration (Houston FSDO)
- Case key
- 102878
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 failure to maintain control of the airplane after it struck a hidden berm during the intentional off-airport landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 3
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 made an intentional off-airport landing in an open grass field and shortly after touchdown the airplane struck a berm hidden by grass that caused the airplane to become airborne. The airplane then ballooned about 5-10 ft above the field before it landed hard on the nose landing gear. At that point the nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, both sets of wing struts, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder. The pilot did not report any mechanical malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N811SG
- Reported as
- Maule MT7 (235)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18105C
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 607.2
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-W1A5, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2020 · 71.9 hours before
- Departed
- RPH · Graham, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- n/a
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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 1, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 262.8 total · 160.3 in this make and model · 41.6 in the last 90 days · 26.9 in the last 30 days · 6.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 15 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- LXY, 25 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLXY 052055Z AUTO 19015G19KT 10SM SCT042 BKN049 OVC080 24/14 A2998 RMK AO2 T02360144=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 26, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.