- Date
- June 1, 1991, 13:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Battle Creek, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2596PLake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910601018569A
- Case key
- 15085
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Probable cause
Aircraft control by the dual student was not maintained, remedial action by the CFI was delayed, which resulted in a stall/mush. A factor related to the accident was rough water caused by a power boat wake.
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 CFI said that while taxiing on step the acft encountered a power boats wake and became airborne. The student pilot reduced the power, and the acft pitched down. The CFI took oer the controls, but was unable to arrest the descent and the acft struck the water nose down, at about a 30 degree angle. The acft nose filled with water and sank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2596P
- Reported as
- Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 879
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Brook Aero, Inc
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 25 in this make and model · 1,850 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- BTL, 1 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.
Other investigations on N2596P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.