- Date
- August 18, 1984, 08:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Corpus Christi, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5648DMaule M6-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21435
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Near collision between aircraft
Vfr procedures - not followedCause
Abrupt maneuver
Remedial action - performed
Descent - initiatedFactor
Miscellaneous/other
Analysis
On a heading of 165 deg at 3,500 ft the plt saw another acft at the same altitude on a collision course. Evasive action was taken by pushing the nose over forcing both occupants into the cabin overhead. According to the plt, both seatbelts and shoulder harnesses were in use.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5648D
- Reported as
- Maule M6-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7418C
- Airframe hours
- 138
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-WIA5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lockhart Aviation
- Registered owner
- Len C. Dure
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1983
- Departed
- Lockhart, TX
- Destination
- BRO · Brownsville, TX
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 514 total · 54 in this make and model · 459 as pilot in command · 107 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRP, 28 nm away