- Date
- July 29, 1985, 15:38 local (22:38 UTC)
- Place
- Northport, WA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2886DConsolidated-Vultee PBY-6A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40056
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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
Water bomber acft landed on lake with dump doors partially open during landing phase of water pickup run. Mechanically operated dump door locks were applied before dump doors were closed. Plt controlled dump doors from pilots control wheel, co-pilot operated door locks by separate control independent of the dump doors.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2886D
- Reported as
- Consolidated-Vultee PBY-6A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 64034
- Airframe hours
- 4,415
- Engine
- Curtis Wright R-2600-20, 2,200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert P. Schaefli
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 15, 1985 · 57 hours before
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 17,000 total · 17,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 27 °F
Other investigations on N2886D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.