- Date
- June 12, 1988, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mico, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N666BKLake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880612021489A
- Case key
- 22652
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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.
Analysis
The pilot said he was practicing water landings in the lake. During a landing, the airplane started porpoising due to the wake of a passing boat. The airplane landed hard. The windsheild cracked and the pilot elected to take the airplane to the home airport for final landing. Upon arrival at the airport, the nose gear doors would not open. The pilot elected to land with only the main gear extended and the nose gear retracted. As the airplane slowed down after landing, the nose of the airplane came to rest on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N666BK
- Reported as
- Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1084
- Airframe hours
- 300
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ward D. Heinrich
- Registered owner
- Heinrich, Ward D
- Departed
- SSF · San Antonio, TX
- Airport
- NONE · Lake Medina
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 10 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.