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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Lewis John D LEWIS SEARAY · Tavares, FL · April 6, 2014

Date
April 6, 2014 · 12:11 local
Place
Tavares, FL
Airport
Lake Idamere (Tavares, Fl)
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N385JD
Reported as
Lewis John D Lewis Searay
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
25,000 total63 in this make and model20 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.

Attempted landing an amphibious (hull-type) light sport aircraft in a lake with landing gear in the ?down? Position, causing aircraft to nose below the waterline.

As the FAA filed it

ATTEMPTED LANDING AN AMPHIBIOUS (HULL-TYPE) LIGHT SPORT AIRCRAFT IN A LAKE WITH LANDING GEAR IN THE ?DOWN? POSITION, CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO NOSE BELOW THE WATERLINE.