- Date
- April 20, 1985, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Dexter, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2582PLake Buccaneer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40143
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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.
Overrun
Proper touchdown point - exceededCause
Lack of recent experience in kind of aircraftFactor
Recovery from bounced landing - not attainedCause
Go-around - delayedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Distance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The acft bounced during touchdown several times while attending to land on the water. The acft was too close to a dam to make a go-around. The acft then struck the dam head on.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2582P
- Reported as
- Lake Buccaneer
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 875
- Airframe hours
- 820
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry A. Berryman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- EUG · Eugene, OR
- Destination
- Dexter, OR
- Airport
- Dexter Lake
N2582PRegistration cancelled Nov 8, 2013 · Consolidated Aeronautics LAKE LA-4-200Airframe modelConsolidated Aeronautics LAKE LA-4-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificates
- Private, Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 148 total · 96 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 28.00 inHg
Other investigations on N2582P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.