- Date
- October 12, 2011, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Zelienople, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N567HWMaule MX-7-180C
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 82785
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Probable cause
The pilot did not maintain directional control during landing.
Findings · 2
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
According to the pilot, he had been practicing takeoffs and landings in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. Upon landing, the airplane touched down a little hard and veered to the left. He applied full right rudder and right brake, and the airplane came to rest at the edge of the runway. During the accident sequence, the airplane’s right wing struck the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to a right wing rib and the right aileron. Examination of the airplane revealed no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot, he had been practicing takeoffs and landings, in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. Upon landing the airplane touched down a little hard and veered to the left. He applied full right rudder and right brake and the airplane came to rest at the edge of the runway. During the accident sequence the airplane struck the right wing on the runway which resulted in substantial damage to a right wing rib and aileron. Examination of the airplane revealed no pre-accident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N567HW
- Reported as
- Maule MX-7-180C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28019C
- Airframe hours
- 769
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 9, 2011 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- BTP · Butler, PA
- Destination
- PJC · Zelienople, PA
- Airport
- PJC · Zelienople Municipal Airport, runway 35, 4,933 × 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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 1, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 217 total · 13 in this make and model · 134 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- BTP, 10 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 25, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 585 KB in all.
Other investigations on N567HW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.