- Date
- May 29, 1989, 12:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Angoon, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67669de Havilland DHC-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890529013069A
- Case key
- 40918
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Pilot failed to assure the landing gear on the amphibious floats were retracted for the water landing.
Analysis
The pilot landed the amphibian landing gear equipped aircraft on water with the wheels extended, and the aircraft flipped over to an inverted attitude on touchdown.
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.
Gear not retracted
Gear retraction - not identifiedCause
Wheels down landing in water - inadvertentCause
Nose over
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67669
- Reported as
- de Havilland DHC-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 917
- Airframe hours
- 11,313
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Alaska Coastal Airlines
- Registered owner
- David P Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 10, 1989 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- JNU · Juneau, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 14,500 total · 150 in this make and model · 100 in the last 90 days · 64 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Observed at
- AGN, 20 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.