- Date
- September 29, 2024, 09:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Atwell, NY · On South Lake
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5625TRemos Gemini Remos G-3/600
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Dragged wing/rotor/float/other
- 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
- 20240929018089A
- Case key
- 199395
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control on takeoff.
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 reported that he performed a preflight inspection of the float-equipped airplane. After engine start, warm up, and taxi, he began his takeoff roll from the lake. The pilot said the airplane took longer than normal to take off and once he was airborne his airspeed was only about 40-45 miles per hour. When he lowered the nose of the airplane to gain airspeed, the “right wing started to wave up and down,” consistent with a stall. The pilot attempted to land straight ahead on the lake, but upon touchdown, the right wing impacted the water, spinning the airplane, and collapsing the right float. During the impact sequence the outboard portion of the left wing was impact-separated, resulting in substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Therefore, it is most likely that the pilot did not obtain the proper airspeed or angle of attack on takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and subsequent loss of control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5625T
- Reported as
- Remos Gemini Remos G-3/600
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 207
- Built
- 2007
- Airframe hours
- 1,881
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fred Northup
- Registered owner
- 5625t LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · September 12, 2024 · 6 hours before
- Destination
- 6B4 · Utica/Frankfort, NY
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather
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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,059 total · 239 in this make and model · 988 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- RME, 28 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRME 291353Z 14007KT 10SM CLR 19/14 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP170 T01890144
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 8, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.