- Date
- June 26, 2005, 14:46 local (18:46 UTC)
- Place
- Elk Lake, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90MWCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 27, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20050626023859A
- Case key
- 61996
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Probable cause
The gear retraction not performed 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
The airplane which was equipped with floats impacted water during landing with the landing gear extended. The airplane was not equipped with a landing gear warning system to indicate that the landing gear was extended.
Factual narrative
On June 26, 2005, at 1448 eastern daylight time, a Cessna A185F, N90MW, owned and piloted by a private pilot, impacted Elk Lake, Minnesota, during an amphibious landing on Elk Lake with the landing gear wheels extended. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was not operating on a flight plan. The pilot was uninjured. The local flight originated at 1446 and was retuning to Elk Lake.
The pilot stated that he landed with the landing gear extended.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration inspector, the airplane was not equipped with a landing gear down warning system, which is available through a supplemental type certificate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90MW
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504073
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles Lapham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Elk Lake, MN
- Destination
- Elk Lake, MI
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
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 71
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 3,566 total · 700 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.