- Date
- June 8, 2025, 10:34 local (14:34 UTC)
- Place
- Geneva, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N405XPScoda Aeronautica Ltda Super Petrel XP
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2025
- 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
- 20250608006749A
- Case key
- 200357
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 airplane’s collision with a submerged object during landing, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage/hull.
Findings · 1
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 reported that while landing on a lake he heard a large noise just after touching down. After water began to enter the cockpit, the pilot shut down the airplane and he and his passenger evacuated. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the bottom of the fuselage/hull consistent with a collision with a submerged object. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N405XP
- Reported as
- Scoda Aeronautica Ltda Super Petrel XP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- S0405
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 126
- Engine
- Rotax 915is, 151 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Super Petrel USA Inc
- Registered owner
- Super Petrel USA Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 7, 2025 · 18.9 hours before
- Departed
- SFB · Sanford, FL
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 4,754 total · 1,170 in this make and model · 4,700 as pilot in command · 99.6 in the last 90 days · 20.9 in the last 30 days · 2.1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- SFB, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KSFB 081453Z VRB06KT 10SM SCT029 31/24 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP159 T03060239 51005
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 14, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.3 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.