Float Planes Crashed on the West Coast-all safe

[fubar57]

Any guess why it crashed on landing in the water........anyone?

2 people rescued after float plane crash off Lasqueti Island, B.C. | CBC News

Officials say two people were safely rescued after a float plane crashed in False Bay on the west side of Lasqueti Island, B.C., Thursday morning.

www.cbc.ca

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Any guess why it crashed on landing in the water........anyone?

2 people rescued after float plane crash off Lasqueti Island, B.C. | CBC News

Officials say two people were safely rescued after a float plane crashed in False Bay on the west side of Lasqueti Island, B.C., Thursday morning.

www.cbc.ca

Who can say?

 

[Airframes]

Tripped over a salmon ?

But more seriously, possibly a "heavy" landing, with the floats sinking through the surface, causing sudden deceleration, and then the inertia causing the aircraft to violently nose over ?

 

[special ed]

Why were the wheels down for a water landing?

 

[Sabrejet]

Why were the wheels down for a water landing?

That is already an assumption; wheels down in the photo of it upturned does not equate to "wheels down for a water landing".

 

[special ed]

So... The wheels were extended after landing, while upside down?

 

[MIflyer]

Well, on the other hand, that's a right smart job of docking.

A friend of mine with some floatplane experience once remarked, "You don't have to be that great a pilot to fly one of those but you have to be one hell of a sailor."

 

[Sabrejet]

So... The wheels were extended after landing, while upside down?

Again, an assumption; an accident investigator would only conclude (at this point) that the wheels were extended by the time it was recovered. "...were extended" implies a conscious action and highlights the risks of making assumptions.

 

[gecko]

Normally if the landing gear on amphibious floats are extended, a water landing will result in exactly this outcome. At a guess the pilot took off from a land runway and never retracted the gear. As soon as those wheels dig into the water it's game over.

 

[fubar57]

Zactly. Google "float plane landing on water with wheels down" and that's the result and exactly what the eyewitness reported. Thanks for playing. Tell us what he's won, Johnny

 

[Gnomey]

Glad everyone is safe at least!

 

[MIflyer]

Normally if the landing gear on amphibious floats are extended, a water landing will result in exactly this outcome.

Yes, I have heard of other cases where this occurred. A PBY landing off Catalina Island circa 1972 sank after it landed wheels down and a USAF HU-16 did so off the shore of Libya as part of a rescue demonstration.