A pilot reported loosing control of a maule amphibian on takeoff after he lifted off to soon in a cr...

Attributes
ACN	1011027
Time
Date	201205
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	M-7
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 51 Flight Crew Total 5180 Flight Crew Type 175
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

I was flying a maule amphibian delivering it to the person who had purchased it from me earlier. The owner was buying the fuel for the trip. After a fuel stop; I was taking off in a strong crosswind and lost control of the aircraft due to the crosswind. I lifted the amphibian off the runway too soon and I believe the left wing stalled due to gusty conditions and caused the amphibian to turn south into the wind and contacted the ground with the forward parts of the floats. I feel the cause of the incident was the strong crosswind on the amphibian aircraft. I believe that if I had kept the amphibian on the ground a longer time and allowed the airspeed to increase before allowing the amphibian to fly; I could have avoided this incident.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot reported loosing control of a Maule Amphibian on takeoff after he lifted off to soon in a crosswind causing a wing to stall and forward parts of the floats to contact the runway.

Narrative: I was flying a Maule Amphibian delivering it to the person who had purchased it from me earlier. The owner was buying the fuel for the trip. After a fuel stop; I was taking off in a strong crosswind and lost control of the aircraft due to the crosswind. I lifted the Amphibian off the runway too soon and I believe the left wing stalled due to gusty conditions and caused the Amphibian to turn south into the wind and contacted the ground with the forward parts of the floats. I feel the cause of the incident was the strong crosswind on the Amphibian aircraft. I believe that if I had kept the Amphibian on the ground a longer time and allowed the airspeed to increase before allowing the Amphibian to fly; I could have avoided this incident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

A pilot reported loosing control of a maule amphibian on takeoff after he lifted off to soon in a crosswind causing a wing to stall and forward parts of the floats to contact the runway.