- Date
- June 23, 2024, 08:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Winifred, MT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5519CMaule MXT-7-180
- Defining event
- Landing: Collision during takeoff/land
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20240623006789A
- Case key
- 194536
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 inadvertent excessive application of brakes, which resulted in a nose over.
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 reported that he entered the downwind leg of the airport traffic pattern and subsequently completed a normal approach to the runway. During the touchdown the airplane landed hard and bounced twice. After the second bounce, the pilot inadvertently applied brakes, and the airplane immediately nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder and wing struts. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that could have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5519C
- Reported as
- Maule MXT-7-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14105C
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 720
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kukeeza LLC
- Registered owner
- Kukeeza LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 25, 2024
- Departed
- 9S7 · Winifred, MT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- L51 · Heller Farm, runway 11/29, 2,998 × 80 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 53
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 6, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 595 total · 63 in this make and model · 523 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- Observed at
- KLWT, 19 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLWT 231454Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 23/15 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP067 T02280150 58015=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 13, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.