- Date
- July 11, 1966
- Place
- Catalina Is, CA · CATALINA IS, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5538NGrumman G-21A
- Status
- Completed · report January 5, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 122867
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3388 66/7/11 CATALINA IS CALIF GRUMMAN G-21A CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 47, 11000 TIME - 1130 N5538N PX- 0 0 3 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, 330 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS LANDING: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER REMARKS- N5538N LANDED IN TUGBOAT WAKE. TAIL DIPPED INTO WATER AND TWISTED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5538N
- Reported as
- Grumman G-21A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage