Beechcraft Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 1600; Flight Crew Type 100
Distraction
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Weather; Aircraft; Human Factors
I was cleared to land on Runway 31. Crosswind was from the right - velocity unknown. After landing I slowed down and was on the rollout with all three wheels on the ground and with appropriate crosswind input. While slowing; the Tower called and asked if I could make the next turnoff to the left because of a following fast jet (A-5). That intersection was Runway 2/20. I answered that I would try to do so. Because the aileron input was all in to the right; the yoke was upside down and I was distracted looking for the press-to-talk button. The airplane began a right turn into the wind that I was unable to stop. I exited the paved surface before the 5;000 remaining marker and on to the soft grass surface of a small swale beside the runway. When the left main gear contacted the muddy surface it dug in and the airplane tipped up onto its nose and came to a rest with the nose in contact with the ground. I turned off the fuel valve; mags and main electrical power switches. I exited the airplane and was uninjured.I was distracted by trying to reply to the radio request by the Tower to exit at the next intersection. I should not have attempted a reply with the yoke inverted while in a crosswind situation with a tailwheel airplane.
The pilot of a Beech tailwheel aircraft reported losing control during a crosswind landing; resulting in a ground loop; runway excursion; and damage to the aircraft.