- Date
- August 22, 1984, 09:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Winter Haven, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N737LZCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840822045219A
- Case key
- 31181
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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 acft landed on glassy water in a nose low attitude and nosed over. The CFI who was checking out an applicant for a seaplane rating said he was preparing to call for or actually pulled the nose up as the acft floats hit the water and went under. According to the CFI the water had abruptly changed to a glassy condition as they flared for the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N737LZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269513
- Airframe hours
- 3,206
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jack Brown'S Seaplane Base
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 7, 1984 · 10 hours before
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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 25,625 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 42 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAL, 15 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.