- Date
- May 7, 1984, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stone Lake, WI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N281BColonial C-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840507016369A
- Case key
- 12397
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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 plt had flown to little sissabagama lake where he owned a cabin. A witness had observed the last 3 mins of flt but not the actual impact with the water. The acft was later found inverted in 15 ft of water 300 ft from a shore. Plt was found 150 ft from the shore & the cause of death was drowning. The witness observed the acft in a wide gradually descending left turn around an island. The eng sound was 'normally loud. Shortly thereafter, the eng sound decreased momentarily, then stop. The left wing float had separated from the wing. The horizontal stabilizer trim tabs were about 3 deg nose up, a near-cruise setting. According to the CFI who had checked out the plt in the acft, the plt, who was a B-727 airline captain, had difficulty judging surface wind direction following a low pass over the water.' Winds in the area are unpredictable due to the several islands on the lake. It was raining at the time & wave height was about 1 ft. the water temp was 42 deg f.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N281B
- Reported as
- Colonial C-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 140
- Airframe hours
- 1,713
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronald D. Peter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 16, 1983 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- ENW · Kenosha, WI
- Destination
- Little Sissaba, WI
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 12,797 total · 49 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 11 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 37 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.