- Date
- October 20, 1984, 12:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shulin Lake, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N70018Cessna A185E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19841020060979A
- Case key
- 4437
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft nosed over during a water landing. This acft had wheels in the floats and one of the wheels was not retracted for the water landing. These gear are hand retracted by the plt. The plt said he checked visually to insure the left gear was up but did not visually check the right. To do so one must undo safety belt and look out the right side. Gear indicators unreliable if landings made in salt water. A mirror is provided but hard to read for visual check from left seat.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70018
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18501893
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frank Nyman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 5, 1984 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Shulin Lake, AK
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 256 total · 161 in this make and model · 169 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N70018 · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.