- Date
- June 10, 1984, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Middletown, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N540JCMaule M-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840610023419A
- Case key
- 12650
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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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - improperCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
Plt was attempting to make a 3 point stall landing when a gust of wind was encountered, resulting in a hard landing. Plt reported the wind was gusting to 20 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N540JC
- Reported as
- Maule M-4
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J1A50, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles L.Willis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 31, 1983
- Departed
- MWO · Middletown, OH
- Airport
- MWO · Hook Municipal, runway 23, 6,100 × 100 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 370 total · 33 in this make and model · 297 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 14 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CVG, 30 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.