- Date
- August 31, 2006, 19:53 local (23:53 UTC)
- Place
- White Lake, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6774BPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 26, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060831020199A
- Case key
- 64469
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's failure to ensure the landing gear was retracted prior to attempting a water landing.
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 certificated, single-engine-land private pilot was in the front seat of the float-equipped PA-18-150, receiving water landing instruction from the flight instructor in the rear seat. The airplane made a water landing with the wheels down, and nosed over. There were no mechanical anomalies noted.
Factual narrative
According to pilot and witness statements, the certificated, single-engine-land private pilot was in the front seat of the float-equipped PA-18-150, receiving water landing instruction from the flight instructor in the rear seat. The airplane made a water landing with the wheels down, and nosed over. There were no mechanical anomalies noted. The flight instructor did not reply to requests for information.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6774B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-5007
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Adina M. Szewczyk
- Registered owner
- Elizabeth Weller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 1NK7 · Boonville, NY
- Destination
- NONE · White Lake, NY
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6774B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.