SEA95LA195 · Maule M-5-235C
Maule M-5-235C · Accident: airframe, component or system failure during landing
From Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA95LA195
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Maule M-5-235C
- Aircraft type
- Maule M-5
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N9281E
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Jackson Hole Airport (JAC), JACKSON HOLE, WYTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Brakes(normal), not used
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot stated that following a normal straight-in approach and a 'near perfect 3 point landing', the aircraft rolled straight ahead on the runway centerline for 3 to 5 seconds, then began to turn right. The pilot applied 'full left rudder...with no result.' He then applied full power 'in an attempted go-around.' He stated to investigators that he never attempted differential braking during the event. The aircraft's main gear collapsed as the aircraft heading approached 90 degrees right of the runway heading and the aircraft slid to a stop. Postaccident examination of the Scott model 3200 tailwheel installed on the aircraft revealed that a spring had broken inside the tailwheel assembly, preventing the tailwheel from being steered to the left with the rudder pedals. There is no evidence to indicate that this model tailwheel assembly is currently approved for installation on the aircraft. Available information indicated that the tailwheel assembly had been installed on the aircraft for at least 6 years prior to the accident.
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to use brakes to maintain directional control following a tailwheel steering malfunction. Partial failure of the tailwheel steering system contributed to the accident.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA95LA195
- Event ID
- 20001207X04393
- Case number
- SEA95LA195
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 4b5daf5897e0f50afdef0a09b92d76c8598e2153423297217780fc358eb4edb6; retrieved 2026-09-22T23:21:09.394Z.