- Date
- September 7, 2022, 08:23 local (12:23 UTC)
- Place
- Millinocket, ME
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N756SGCessna U206G
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- 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
- FAA report
- 20220907009379A
- Case key
- 105887
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain an appropriate descent rate for a glassy water landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
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
During an air taxi flight, the pilot executed a glassy-water landing on a remote lake with an excessive descent rate which resulted in a hard landing and go-around. The pilot later successfully landed the airplane without further incident. The hard landing resulted in the front seat passenger sustaining a broken rib. All three persons aboard were seated and wearing lap belts without shoulder harasses. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The front-seat passenger stated the sun’s position in the sky – combined with the glassy water surface conditions - produced significant sun glare, especially on the pilot’s side of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N756SG
- Reported as
- Cessna U206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20604315
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 9,058
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-F12B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Waters Aero Marine Inc, doing business as Penobscot Island Air
- Registered owner
- Waters Aero Marine Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · August 22, 2022
- Departed
- 70B · Millinocket, ME
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, ADS-B
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
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 21, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 2,821.4 total · 340.5 in this make and model · 2,765.4 as pilot in command · 73 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- MLT, 17 nm away
- METAR
- KMLT 071253Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 16/14 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP200 T01560139
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 12, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.