- Date
- August 8, 1982, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake George, NY
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1344QCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820808036319A
- Case key
- 71322
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Witnesses to the accident described a nose up pitch attitude of between thirty and forty-five degrees during the initial climb after departing Lake George. At several hundred feet above the ground, the aircraft was observed to make a desending left turn to the surface of the lake. The subsequent touchdown on the lake's surface was described by witnesses as hard with the aircraft in a left wing low attitude. The aircraft was then observed to bounce and depart the area for approximately thirty minutes before returning for a normal landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1344Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503477
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William J. Barton,Jr.
- Registered owner
- William Barton
- Departed
- Lake George, NY
- Destination
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Airport
- Lake George
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 181 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFL, 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.
Other investigations on N1344Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.