- Date
- April 20, 1998, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Orland, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N327PFMaule MXT-7-108A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 8, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 10859
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Probable cause
the pilot's misjudged landing flare and improper recovery from a bounced 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 reported that the airplane bounced twice while he was landing on a private airstrip. After the second bounce, the nose gear collapsed and the airplane nosed over.
Factual narrative
On April 20, 1998, at 1900 eastern daylight time, a Maule MXT-7- 108A, N327PF, operated by a private pilot nosed over following a loss of control while landing on a private airstrip in Orland, Indiana. The airplane was substantially damaged and the pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from the same private airstrip.
The pilot reported that while landing to the east the airplane bounced twice. The nose gear collapsed after the second bounce and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N327PF
- Reported as
- Maule MXT-7-108A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21038C
- Airframe hours
- 11
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C4F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gaylord Parr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 28, 1998 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- Private Airstrip, runway 9, 2,600 × 150 ft, grass/turf
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 578 total · 4 in this make and model · 441 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None