- Date
- May 16, 2015, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sharps Chapel, TN
- 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 July 8, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20150516007399A
- Case key
- 91185
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Probable cause
Collision with an obstacle during the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent runway excursion and tree strike.
Findings · 3
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 reported that during the landing roll on his first landing to his newly constructed airfield, the airplane's left main wheel came in contact with "something" and bounced in the air. The airplane veered to the left, the left wing tip struck a branch, continued to veer to the left and impacted a tree, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing spar. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing roll on his first landing to his newly constructed airfield; the airplane's left main wheel came in contact with "something" and bounced in the air. The airplane veered to the left, the left wing tip struck a branch, continued to veer to the left and impacted a tree, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing spar. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N567HW
- Reported as
- Maule MX 7-180C (180C)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28019C
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 809
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-CIF, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Billinger William C
- Registered owner
- Billinger William C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 2015
- Departed
- 3A2 · New Tazewell, TN
- Destination
- UNKN · Sharps Chapel, TN
- Airport
- UNKN · Old Valley Airport, runway 26, 1,570 × 140 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot
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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 9, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 274 total · 56 in this make and model · 179 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- K1A6, 17 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 30, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 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 N567HW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.