20230814010439I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna A185F · Bettles, AK · August 14, 2023

Date
August 14, 2023 · 08:30 local
Place
Bettles, AK
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
SQDA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N93769
Reported as
Cessna A185F
Reported engine
Continental IO-520 series
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
18,000 total3,800 in this make and model250 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.

Level flight at 2500 ft AGL. Engine quite, restart failed. Piloted to a shallow creek and landed, struck a submerged rock on rollout damaging the floats.

As the FAA filed it

LEVEL FLIGHT AT 2500 FT AGL. ENGINE QUITE, RESTART FAILED. PILOTED TO A SHALLOW CREEK AND LANDED, STRUCK A SUBMERGED ROCK ON ROLLOUT DAMAGING THE FLOATS.

Other reports on N93769 · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.