- Date
- February 26, 1987, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Melbourne, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2287TCessna A185E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870226003479A
- Case key
- 31861
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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 student plt inadvertently lowered the landing gear on the downwind leg in preparation for a water landing. The flt then turned base to final, &, upon touchdown, the acft nosed over & came to rest inverted in the lake. Investigation revealed that the landing gear indicator lights had not been modified when the floats were installed. Such modifications entail changing of the landing gear up light from amber to blue for water operations and for the landing gear down indication from green to amber for land operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2287T
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-1448
- Airframe hours
- 1,960
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D23B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida Institute Of Technolo.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 6, 1987 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- MLB · Melbourne, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 5,080 total · 10 in this make and model · 4,755 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLB, 6 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.