- Date
- August 29, 1992, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bucoda, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8011YConsolidated Aeronautics Lake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 42895
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain proper alignment while landing on water, resulting in a swerve during deceleration.
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.
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
Terrain condition - water
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
While landing on a lake, the acft swerved during deceleration and the wings impacted the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8011Y
- Reported as
- Consolidated Aeronautics Lake LA-4-200 (LAKE LA-4-)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1063
- Airframe hours
- 859
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pace, William R.
- Registered owner
- Pace, William R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 13, 1992 · 91 hours before
- Departed
- OLM · Olympia, WA
N8011YRegistration cancelled Jul 23, 2003 · Aerofab LAKE LA-4-200Airframe modelAerofab LAKE LA-4-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 SER A&C
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 485 total · 408 in this make and model · 417 as pilot in command · 42 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F