- Date
- September 4, 1986, 15:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N942SACessna TU206A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19860904045239A
- Case key
- 4729
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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 pilot forgot to retract the landing gear on the amphibous floats after taking off from a gravel runway. He landed on a lake with the wheels extended and the airplane turned over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N942SA
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U2060553
- Airframe hours
- 4,646
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Ty Kidder Lee, doing business as Susitna Air Service
- Registered owner
- Sustitna Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 15, 1981 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- TKA · Talkeetna, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Shovel Lake
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,970 total · 725 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 205 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
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 N942SA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.