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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Kuypers Nor Avid Heavy · Green Cove Spri, FL · December 9, 2009

Date
December 9, 2009 · 13:00 local
Place
Green Cove Spri, FL
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4NK
Reported as
Kuypers Nor Avid Heavy
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
69 total7 in this make and model7 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

During water landing on st johns river one or more of the support struts for floats failed, causing aircraft to settle into water.

As the FAA filed it

DURING WATER LANDING ON ST JOHNS RIVER ONE OR MORE OF THE SUPPORT STRUTS FOR FLOATS FAILED, CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO SETTLE INTO WATER.