- Date
- March 27, 1983, 07:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Int.Coastal Cty, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N61826Cessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830327012569A
- Case key
- 20848
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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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.
Nose over
Checklist - not usedCause
InattentiveFactor
Wheels down landing in water - attemptedCause
Analysis
The pilot stated that the landing gear was not retracted after takeoff from the airport. When the pilot attempted to land on water the aircraft flipped over and sank. The landing gear are built into the floats and during the retraction cycle the landing gear retracts into the floats.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61826
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504263
- Airframe hours
- 936
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Paul Fornet Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · February 1, 1983 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- LFT · Lafayette, LA
- Destination
- Vermillion Bay, LA
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 315° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.