- Date
- April 28, 1984, 13:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Vacaville, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N40329Maule M-4-220C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840428014679A
- Case key
- 24244
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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.
Analysis
The flight was conducted for a sales demonstration. Both occupants were pilots. Two landings were performed by the acft owner. The third landing was performed by the prospective buyer and during touchdown the acft bounced. The owner applied power to recover. The buyer applied right brake. The acft veered off the runway, ground looped and went into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40329
- Reported as
- Maule M-4-220C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2104C
- Airframe hours
- 442
- Engine
- Franklin 6A-350-C1, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph W. Bennett
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1983 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Destination
- 045 · Vacaville, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 045 · Nut Tree, runway 1, 3,800 × 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,987 total · 2,570 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 20 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.