- Date
- February 22, 1984, 12:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- Key West, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N4460RCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840222005429A
- Case key
- 30973
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft landed after a previous flt & was refueled & preflight for another mission. According to maintenance personnel, the acft floats were drained once every morning before the 1st flt of the day in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations. The plt stated that when she was taking off from the seaplane base, the front right door window became open & she leaned to the right to check that the door was closed & locked. She continued the takeoff. When the acft became airborne, she had to hold an abnormal amount of right aileron to hold the wings level. At that time, she noted that the acft was not accelerating & climbing properly. There were high tension wire ahead, so she elected to abort. The acft was banked to the left & was landed hard while in a left wing low, forward slip. The floats separated, & subsequently, the acft came to rest in about 4 ft of salt water. No evidence of a preimpact failure was found except the left float had 3 popped rivets & a quantity of water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4460R
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-02962
- Airframe hours
- 4,043
- Engine
- Continental I0-520-D24, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Keywest Seaplane Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 27, 1983 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- SB · Keywest, FL
- Destination
- SB · Dry Tortuga, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Glf Of Mex.Seaplane Base
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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,900 total · 1,300 in this make and model · 2,700 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EYW, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.