- Date
- June 29, 1993, 12:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- Rice, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N758KQCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930629037749A
- Case key
- 15751
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain proper clearance.
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.
In flight collision with object
Object - wire,transmissionFactor
Clearance - not maintainedCause
Lack of familiarity with aircraft
Hard landing
Analysis
On the base leg of his approach to little rock lake, Rice, Minnesota, the pilot struck and hooked some electrical wires around each float strut, pitching the nose of the aircraft up. This resulted in a hard landing on the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758KQ
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1723160
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-KB, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cuillin Investments, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Cuillin Investments, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- STC · St. Cloud, MN
- Destination
- Littlerock Lake, MN
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Private, Foreign, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 452 total · 8 in this make and model · 275 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STC, 11 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.