- Date
- June 25, 2006, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- La Verne, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N209ZMaule M-7-235C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20060625014639A
- Case key
- 63977
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to obtain/maintain directional control on the landing rollout.
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.
Analysis
The airplane veered off the runway after landing and nosed over. In the pilot's written statement, he said that he lost directional control after touchdown and was not successful in regaining control, so he let it run off the runway. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions noted with the airplane or engine that would have precluded normal operation. Reported winds at the time of the accident were variable at 4 knots.
Factual narrative
On June 25, 2006, about 0900 Pacific daylight time, a Maule M-7-235C, N209Z, veered off the runway and nosed over during landing at Brackett Field, La Verne, California. The pilot/operator was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The private pilot, and one passenger were not injured; the airplane sustained substantial damage. The local personal flight departed Brackett Field about 0854. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed.
The pilot submitted a written report. He reported that after touchdown on the runway, he lost directional control of the airplane. He stated "I was not succeeding in controlling it, so I let it run off the runway and it flipped over after the prop struck the ground."
The pilot stated that the airplane and engine had no mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
The reported wind conditions at Brackett Field at 0847 were variable at 4 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N209Z
- Reported as
- Maule M-7-235C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25028C
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-WIAS, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Peter Hoffman
- Registered owner
- Fairway Racing, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- POC · La Verne, CA
- Destination
- POC · La Verne, CA
- Airport
- POC · Brackett Field, runway 26L, 4,839 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- May 1, 2006
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 842 total · 14 in this make and model · 674 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- POC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.