- Date
- August 10, 2025, 10:56 local (14:56 UTC)
- Place
- Muskeget Island, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1052TMaule MX-7-180A
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250810010939A
- Case key
- 200768
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to obtain a proper touchdown point while attempting to land on a very short and rough turf runway, which resulted in a runway overrun and collision with vegetation and terrain.
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
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that he was attempting to land on a 750-ft-long, rough turf airstrip. He added that he had not landed at that airstrip in about 3 years. The pilot rejected the first landing attempt as the airplane touched down too long. During the second approach, the airplane touched down slightly beyond the intended touchdown point. The pilot applied light braking at first, but two the airplane bounced twice after cresting two small humps in the runway. The pilot again attempted to reject the landing and added full power to clear 8-ft reeds at the end of the runway; however, the propeller contacted the reeds, and the airplane began to decelerate. As the airplane decelerated, it nosed over and came to rest inverted beyond the end of the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing and rudder. The pilot stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1052T
- Reported as
- Maule MX-7-180A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20054C
- Built
- 1998
- Airframe hours
- 2,493
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 2025
- Departed
- ACK · Nantucket, MA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MA55 · Muskeget Island Airport, runway 31, 750 × 45 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B
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
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- October 14, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,972 total · 236 in this make and model · 1,730 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- ACK, 12 nm away
- METAR
- KACK 101453Z 20006KT 10SM CLR 22/14 A3027 RMK AO2 SLP248 T02220144 51007
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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.
Other investigations on N1052T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.