- Date
- June 22, 2022, 13:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lodi, CA · Airport Environment
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6150VConsolidated Aeronautics Lake LA-4-200
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220622012209A
- Case key
- 105838
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Probable cause
The pilot’s premature retraction of the landing gear during a go-around, which resulted in a gear up landing.
Findings · 2
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
The pilot in the amphibious airplane reported that, he was going to land on the runway. During the approach he slowed too much, and the airplane bounced during the landing. The pilot elected to go around but retracted the landing gear before applying power. The airplane subsequently settled to the runway with the landing gear retracted. The keel of the amphibious airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6150V
- Reported as
- Consolidated Aeronautics Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 804
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 1,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- CFI Academy
- Registered owner
- Seaplane Adventures LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 22, 2022 · 1 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 1O3 · Lodi, runway 26, 3,547 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 24, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,261 total · 7 in this make and model · 1,040 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 92 °F, dew point 53 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.85 inHg
- METAR
- 12:55 PM 92 °F 53 °F 27 % VAR 6 mph 0 mph 29.85 in 0.0 in Fair
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 10, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.