- Date
- November 5, 2018, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Immokalee, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9225GMaule MX7
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20181105021529A
- Case key
- 98755
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion and a collision with runway signage during the subsequent attempted aborted landing.
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 flight instructor reported that, while administering a flight review, he took the flight controls to demonstrate a full-stall landing. During the landing roll, the airplane exited the right side of the runway. He increased power to abort the landing, and the left horizontal stabilizer struck a runway sign. He continued the climb the airplane and flew one pattern and landed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left horizontal stabilizer and the rudder. The instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor reported that while administering a flight review in the tailwheel-equipped airplane, he took the controls to demonstrate a full stall landing, during the landing roll, the airplane exited the right side of the runway. He increased power to abort the landing, and the left horizontal stabilizer struck a runway sign. He continued the climb and flew one pattern and landed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left horizontal stabilizer and the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9225G
- Reported as
- Maule MX7 (180A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20001C
- Airframe hours
- 1,335
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C4F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ave Av Llc
- Registered owner
- Ave Av Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 16, 2018
- Departed
- IMM · Immokalee, FL
- Destination
- IMM · Immokalee, FL
- Airport
- IMM · Immokalee Rgnl, runway 09, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- November 14, 2017
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,039 total · 68 in this make and model · 4,976 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 3, 2016
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 8,164 total · 32 in this make and model · 2,865 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IMM
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 7, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 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.