- Date
- September 8, 1991, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Duluth, MN
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1637ZCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910908038699A
- Case key
- 15186
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Probable cause
Premature touchdown while landing by the pic/cfi. Factors related to the accident were low ceilings, rain, and haze; weather evaluation misjudged by the pic/cfi; and visual outlook reduced.
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 pilot instructor said that while attempting to land in deteriorating flight conditions, a premature hard landing occurred which resulted in a nose over of the float plane. The aircraft sank and the CFI and dual student escaped with minor injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1637Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1850437
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeff A. Foster
- Departed
- D36 · Duluth, MN
- Airport
- Unk, runway 13, 10,000 × 200 ft, water
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 45 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Observed at
- DLH, 10 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.