- Date
- February 13, 1991, 15:46 local (22:46 UTC)
- Place
- Mobile, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N5662FMaule M-6-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910213002309A
- Case key
- 27114
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Probable cause
The pilots' failure to establish a sufficient climb rate to avoid striking a fence.
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 certificated private pilot was departing a privately owned dirt runway. Just after liftoff, the tail wheel struck a barbed wire fence that crossed the departure corridor. The airplane then crashed on desert terrain, shearing off the engine and destroying the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5662F
- Reported as
- Maule M-6-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7469C
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-W1A50, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wolkins, Derrill O.
- Registered owner
- Wolkins, Derrill O.
- Destination
- P10 · Chandler, AZ
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 551.2 total · 164.6 in this make and model · 432.2 as pilot in command · 17.6 in the last 90 days · 6.3 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °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.