- Date
- December 23, 1992, 10:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Moultrie, GA
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1TKMaule M-5-180C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921223051619A
- Case key
- 33206
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain airspeed on initial takeoff climb resulting in an in flight loss of control (stall) and subsequent in flight collision with terrain.
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 private pilot was conducting a maintenance test flight in visual meteorological conditions. The pilot stated after he began his takeoff roll the tail wheel came off the ground and the left wing dropped. The pilot applied aft pressure on the control stick and the airplane became airborne in a nose up attitude. The airplane stalled, and the left wing collided with the ground and the airplane rotated around its vertical axis to the left, the engine separated from the fuselage, the right wing collided with the ground, and the airplane came to a stop sustaining substantial damage. The pilot and two passengers received minor injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1TK
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-180C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8057C
- Airframe hours
- 502
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-CIF, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Harold M.Dickinson
- Registered owner
- Thomas E. Kane Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1991 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- MUL
- Airport
- MUL · Spence, runway 14, 4,500 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 3,000 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABY, 33 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.