- Date
- December 24, 1992, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Two Moon Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N737KADe Havilland DHC2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19921224051779A
- Case key
- 5858
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Probable cause
An inadvertant landing gear extension and wheels down water landing by the pilot in command. A factor relating to the accident was the lack of checklist use by the pilot.
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
Pilot of amphibian float DHC2 beaver departed airport on wheels on VFR flight to village served by seadrome only. Pilot could not recall raising wheels after departure. Pilot made normal approach to water landing at village and upon touchdown, airplane nosed over inverted. Pilot recalled seeing wheels extended from floats after swimming from cockpit.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N737KA
- Reported as
- De Havilland DHC2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1261
- Airframe hours
- 15,068
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Ketchum Air Service
- Registered owner
- Ketchum Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 24, 1992 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- CDV · Cordova-Smith, AK
- Destination
- Tatitlek, AK
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 69
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22,500 total · 4,570 in this make and model · 21,000 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDV, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.