- Date
- March 28, 1993, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Panacea, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N51600Maule M-5-210C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930328006989A
- Case key
- 33248
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadeqaute compensation for wind conditions. The downdraft was a factor.
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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - downdraftFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Hard landing
Analysis
The plt stated that 50-foot-tall trees border both sides of the rwy. While on short final, after descending below the treetops, the descent increased. He applied power, but the acft landed hard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51600
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-210C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6031C
- Airframe hours
- 1,922
- Engine
- Continental IO-360D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Philyaw, Jerry D.
- Registered owner
- Philyaw, Jerry D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 19, 1992 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- MGR · Moultrie, GA
- Airport
- 2J0 · Wakulla County, runway 18, 2,880 × 170 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 91 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 24 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.