- Date
- October 24, 2015, 15:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Goodland, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5638KMaule M5
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 14, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 92238
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate crosswind compensation and subsequent loss of directional control during the landing roll, resulting in a runway excursion and nose over.
Findings · 4
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 of the tailwheel-equipped airplane, during the landing roll at 70 knots, on runway 30, the airplane encountered a powerful gust of wind. He reported that the gust caused the tail to lift off of the runway, and the right wing impacted the grass safety area located to the right of the concrete runway. The pilot reported that after the right wing impacted the ground, the airplane was "catapulted" into the air about 10 feet, and came to rest inverted about 30 feet to the right of the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to wings, fuselage, and empennage. At the time of the accident, the wind at the aerodrome was reported as 210 degrees true at 9 knots. In the hours preceding the accident, the aerodrome reported wind from the south-west with gusts up to 19 knots. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane, during the landing roll at 70 knots, on runway 30, the airplane encountered a powerful gust of wind. He reported that the gust caused the tail to lift off of the runway, and the right wing impacted the grass safety area located to the right of the concrete runway. The pilot reported that after the right wing impacted the ground, the airplane was "catapulted" into the air about 10 feet, and came to rest inverted about 30 feet to the right of the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to wings, fuselage, and empennage. At the time of the accident, the wind at the aerodrome was reported as 210 degrees true at 9 knots. In the hours preceding the accident, the aerodrome reported wind from the south-west with gusts up to 19 knots. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies prior to or during the flight that would have prevented normal flight operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5638K
- Reported as
- Maule M5 (210TC)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9002C
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 1,893
- Engine
- Lycoming TO-360-F1A6D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gregory L. Whipple
- Registered owner
- Gregory L. Whipple
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 10, 2015
- Departed
- E98 · Los Lunas, NM
- Destination
- YKN · Yankton, SD
- Airport
- GLD · Renner Fld /Goodland Muni/, runway 30, 5,499 × 100 ft, concrete
- 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
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 29, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 10,400 total · 7,000 in this make and model · 10,300 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Observed at
- KGLD
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 5, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 MB in all.