- Date
- November 2, 2022, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Topeka, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N190YMaule M7-235B
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- FAA (FSDO)
- FAA report
- 20221102018019A
- Case key
- 106263
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 airplane control during landing with strong gusty surface winds.
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during touchdown, the “nose pitched up” and caused the right wing to stall. The airplane fell and impacted the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 18 with winds directly down the runway at 14 knots, gusting to 25 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N190Y
- Reported as
- Maule M7-235B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23085C
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 998
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-540-B4-B5, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 2, 2022
- Departed
- KNQA · Millington, TN
- Destination
- KTOP · Topeka, KS
- Airport
- KTOP · Topeka Philip Airport, runway 18, 4,331 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 83
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Military, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 9, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 26,238 total · 3 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 14 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- METAR
- KTOP 022053Z 18014G25KT 10SM CLR 25/09 A2999 RMK AO2 PK WND 18028/2042 SLP151 T02500094 56029 KTOP 022153Z 17016G28KT 10SM CLR 24/10 A2999 RMK AO2 PK WND 15028/2151 SLP150 T02440100
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.4 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.