- Date
- July 16, 2020, 10:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Astor, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N86KDKade Aventura II
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20200716010259A
- Case key
- 101647
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to retract the amphibious airplane’s landing gear prior to the water landing, which resulted in a nose over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the amphibious airplane departed from a land-based airport with hard surfaced runway. After conducting some local sightseeing, he prepared to land on a nearby lake. As the airplane settled onto the water it nosed over. The pilot and passenger egressed the airplane and sustained minor injuries, and the fuselage of the airplane was substantially damaged. Following the accident, the pilot noticed that the airplane’s landing gear was in the extended position. He then realized that he had failed to retract the landing gear after departure from the hard surface runway, and inadvertently had left them extended for the water landing. He further described that he allowed his conversation during the sightseeing portion of the flight to distract him from correctly configuring the landing gear. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86KD
- Reported as
- Kade Aventura II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- AA2A0106
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 1,481
- Engine
- Rotax 912S, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 20, 2020
- Departed
- DED · Deland, FL
- Destination
- NONE · Astor, FL
- Airport
- NONE · Lake
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 52
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- February 27, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 216.9 total · 210.6 in this make and model · 216.9 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- DED, 12 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 12, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.