- Date
- October 14, 1985, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Blue Earth, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9845MMaule M-4C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851014052419A
- Case key
- 13370
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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.
Analysis
The acft nosed over after departing the rwy following a loss of directional control during landing. The CFI stated that as the tailwheel touched the rwy the acft began veering to the right. He applied brakes and full left rudder causing theleft wheel rim to fail. The acft then continued off the rwy where it nosed over. The landing was being made on rwy 16 with winds from 240 degs at 12 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9845M
- Reported as
- Maule M-4C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4C
- Airframe hours
- 1,047
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Watonwan Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1985
- Departed
- FRM · Fairmont, MN
- Airport
- BYO · Blue Earth, runway 16, 3,400 × 75 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
- 50
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total · 1 in this make and model · 7,800 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FRM, 14 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.
Other investigations on N9845M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.