- Date
- August 26, 1992, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- St. Cloud, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N185RFCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920826034059A
- Case key
- 15531
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot-in-command to abort takeoff before overrunning the lake edge.
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-in-command initiated a water takeoff. The airplane overran the length of the lake and nosed over on encountering the opposite shoreline. The engine continued to run inverted. The flaps were found in the retracted position. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunction, nor was any found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N185RF
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502942
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Freese, Robert A. & Roberta G.
- Registered owner
- Freese, Robert A. & Roberta G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 1992 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- 8Y4 · Lino Lakes, MN
- Airport
- NONE · Donovan'S Lake
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 125 in this make and model · 5,800 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STC, 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 N185RF · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.