- Date
- June 2, 2021, 10:05 local (16:05 UTC)
- Place
- Cascade, ID · Mahoney Creek USFS Airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4718TMaule M-4
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210602007529A
- Case key
- 103272
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a ditch, which resulted in impact with terrain.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, after landing, and during taxi to the end of the runway to turn around to park, he did not see a deep steep ditch at the end of the runway. The airplane traveled into the ditch as the pilot applied full right rudder and full right brake in an attempt to turn, however, the airplane continued to slide into the ditch where the left-wing impact terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4718T
- Reported as
- Maule M-4
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 2,750.9
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David R Arcand
- Registered owner
- David R Arcand
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2020 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- 85U · Soldier Bar, ID
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 0U3 · Mahoney Creek Usfs, runway 04, 2,150 × 15 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 73
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 17, 2021
- Flight hours
- 1,045 total · 615 in this make and model · 977 as pilot in command · 24.4 in the last 90 days · 24.4 in the last 30 days · 3.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KLLJ, 33 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLLJ 021555Z AUTO 06003KT 10SM CLR 21/06 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP136 T02060061=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 26, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 31.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.