- Date
- July 28, 1986, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wolfeboro, NH
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N396XMaule M-5-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860728039259A
- Case key
- 30391
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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
While landing, the aircraft bounced slightly & the plt lost directional control. The aircraft veered left over the runway edge onto a soft shoulder, nosed over & was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N396X
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7031C
- Airframe hours
- 844
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J1A5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald & Barbara Tewksbury
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 19, 1986
- Departed
- MA04 · Haverhill, MA
- Airport
- 8B8 · Lakes Region, runway 30, 2,000 × 50 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 325 total · 86 in this make and model · 68 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft unknown
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N396X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.