- Date
- October 28, 1989, 11:25 local (15:25 UTC)
- Place
- Plattsburgh, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6224MMaule M-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891028043599A
- Case key
- 36575
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning to assure clearance from the surrounding brush.
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
Landing gear struck brush taking off from a 600 ft damp grass private strip and the aircraft flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6224M
- Reported as
- Maule M-5
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7196C
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540JA5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John C. Macone
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 28, 1989 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- Plattsburgh, NY
- Destination
- Underhill, VT
- Airport
- Private Strip, runway 27, 600 × 20 ft, grass/turf
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 11,300 total · 200 in this make and model · 109 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 50 °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.
Other investigations on N6224M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.