- Date
- August 16, 1987, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grafton, WV
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N59FCLake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870816076559A
- Case key
- 11335
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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
According to the plt during the water landing the acft encountered the wake of a boat that had crossed the path of the acft. As a result the acft bounced about 20 ft high. The plt applied full power to recover; however, the acft impacted the water. He started a go-around when he realized that the acft was approaching the shoreline and that there was insufficient landing distance remaining on the lake. The plt was unable to achieve a positive climb before the acft impacted trees and descended to the ground in a nose down attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N59FC
- Reported as
- Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 997
- Airframe hours
- 776
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Scott I Silverman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · August 19, 1986 · 189 hours before
- Departed
- 4G7 · Fairmont, WV
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 538 total · 116 in this make and model · 460 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MGW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.