- Date
- October 26, 2019, 12:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Tavares, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N170AVPereyra Aventura
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20191026020449A
- Case key
- 100504
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 improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing on water, and his failure to maintain airplane control during a go-around, which resulted in the airplane nosing over.
Findings · 2
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 was at a seaplane event and participating in a landing contest on a lake. During landing with a 14-knot crosswind, the airplane was slightly fast, and shortly after touchdown, the airplane hit a wake and bounced. When the airplane was about 2 to 3 ft above the water, he initiated a go-around and applied right aileron control, but the left wing descended and impacted the water, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions with the airplane or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he was at a seaplane event and participating in a landing contest on a lake. During landing with a 14-knot crosswind, he reported that the airplane was slightly fast and shortly after touchdown, the airplane hit a wake and bounced. About 2-3 feet above the water, he initiated a go-around and applied right aileron control, but the left wing descended, impacted the water, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N170AV
- Reported as
- Pereyra Aventura (II)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- AA2AS1701
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 75
- Engine
- Aero Momentum, 117 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sport Flying USA Inc
- Registered owner
- Sport Flying USA Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 1, 2019
- Departed
- Deland, FL
- Destination
- Lake Dora, FL
- Equipment
- None
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
- 72
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 3, 2018
- Flight hours
- 7,080 total · 30 in this make and model · 7,000 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots, gusting 4
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Observed at
- LEE, 4 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 28, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 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.