- Date
- December 13, 1992, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Garden Valley, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5652WMaule M5-180C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921213049799A
- Case key
- 42969
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight planning and preparation. Factors include the snow covered runway.
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 pilot of the Maule m 5 180C landed on a snow covered runway and the aircraft nosed over. He had not checked the airport runway conditions prior to initiating his flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5652W
- Reported as
- Maule M5-180C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8033C
- Airframe hours
- 490
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kurt C. Larson
- Registered owner
- Kurt C. Larson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 5, 1992 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- BOI · Boise, ID
- Destination
- U88 · Garden Valley, ID
- Airport
- U88 · Garden Valley, runway 1, 3,850 × 125 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 388 total · 309 in this make and model · 335 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °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 N5652W · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.