- Date
- September 3, 1982, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Moriches Bay, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N80020Consolidated Aero LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 3, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71769
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
After taking off, the pilot climbed to 1000 ft MSL and leveled off. As the throttle was retarded, the engine lost power for an unknown reason. While making a forced landing on a bay, the aircraft struck a submerged object about 100 ft after touching down and swerved to the right. The pilot stated that the right front part of the hull was penetrated to the fire wall, the right pontoon separated and the aircraft sunk in 5 ft of water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80020
- Reported as
- Consolidated Aero LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1005
- Airframe hours
- 207
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ambassor Leasing
- Registered owner
- Ambassor Leasing
- Departed
- FOK · Westhampton, NY
- Destination
- FOK · Westhampton, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 40 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles