- Date
- July 15, 1993, 11:04 local (19:04 UTC)
- Place
- Turner Lake, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2672PLake LA4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19930715023719A
- Case key
- 2380
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command misjudged the landing flare on a glassy water landing. A factor in the accident was the glassy water condition.
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
During landing on a lake with a glassy water condition the pilot did not flare soon enough and damaged the aircraft during the impact with the water.
Factual narrative
On July 15, 1993, at 1104 Alaska daylight time, an Aerofab Lake Amphibian LA4 airplane, N2672P, crashed at Turner Lake, 28 miles southeast of Juneau, Alaska, during an attempted glassy water landing. The flight had departed Juneau sealane at 1100 on a VFR flight plan for the purpose of a pleasure flight under 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The private pilot and the two passengers were not injured and the airplane was substantially damaged.
The pilot said that he had set up for a glassy water landing over Turner Lake which had a calm surface with no wind. He said that he "landed about 5 feet before he expected." The pilot also said that he had about 60 hours experience in the Lake amphibian and had demonstrated glassy water technique with an instructor, but "not on true glassy water, only on choppy water." He also said that he had about 40 water landings in make and model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2672P
- Reported as
- Lake LA4
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 884
- Airframe hours
- 964
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A2B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jones, David B.
- Registered owner
- Jones, David And Terry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 1993 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- JNU · Juneau, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 641 total · 67 in this make and model · 510 as pilot in command · 67 in the last 90 days · 67 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Observed at
- JNU, 30 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.