- Date
- November 10, 2007, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2PRSea & Air Sales Searey
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 67595
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to raise the landing gear prior to a water landing. Contributing was the pilot's diverted attention.
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 pilot of the amateur-built Searey took off from a land-based airport, and was distracted by a conversation with his passenger and by boats on the river where he subsequently landed with the landing gear still down. Upon touchdown, the airplane nosed over, and the wing spar was damaged.
Factual narrative
According to the pilot of the amateur-built Searey, after taking off from a land-based airport, he was distracted by a conversation with his passenger and by boats on the river where he subsequently landed with the landing gear still down. According to a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, upon touchdown, the airplane nosed over, and the wing spar was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2PR
- Reported as
- Sea & Air Sales Searey
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7812
- Engine
- Rotax 912, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Peter Rundquist
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- 01FL · Geneva, FL
- Destination
- NONE · Sanford, FL
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
- 77
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 3,200 total · 160 in this make and model · 130 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day