- Date
- May 3, 2012, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hayden Lake, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1076DMurphy Rebel
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 29, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20120503008079A
- Case key
- 83768
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilots’ failure to position the landing gear for landing on the water, which resulted in a nose-over.
Findings · 5
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
During a landing on still, glassy water, the single-engine amphibian airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The flight instructor reported that, before landing, neither the regular airplane checklist nor his personal checklist had been used. The pilot receiving instruction, who was also the owner of the airplane, added that they were in a rush and forgot to use the checklist. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left landing gear was extended and the right landing gear was partially retracted. Further examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage, firewall, and door frames.
Factual narrative
During a glassy water landing the single-engine amphibian airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The certified flight instructor reported that prior to landing neither the regular airplane checklist nor his personal GUMPS checklist had been used. The pilot receiving instruction, who was also the owner of the airplane, added that they were just in a rush and forgot to use the checklist. A postaccident examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector revealed that the left landing gear was extended and the right landing gear was partially retracted. Further examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage, firewall, and door frames.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1076D
- Reported as
- Murphy Rebel
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- DW542616
- Airframe hours
- 242
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 5, 2011 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- COE · Coeur d'Alene, ID
- Destination
- Hayden Lake, ID
- Airport
- runway 09, water
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 15, 2010
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,512 total · 4 in this make and model · 9,488 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Last flight review
- April 3, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 922 total · 7 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.71 inHg
- Observed at
- COE, 3 nm away
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 3, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.