NYC97FA178 · Cessna U206B
Cessna U206B · Accident: airframe, component or system failure during landing
From K45 · Kuttawa, KY to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC97FA178
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna U206B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N206KY
- Operator
- William J Wesley · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From K45 · Kuttawa, KYTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Landing gear, float assembly › Failure, total
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, improper
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
During a touch and go water landing the float plane nosed over. Examination revealed that the outboard bottom section of the right float was compressed upward and aft. Maintenance records revealed that the outboard bottom section of the right float was repaired approximate 48 flight hours prior to the accident. The mechanic reported that the repair was accomplished according to the float manufacturer's repair manual. The float manufacturer's repair manual indicated that when replacing outboard bottom skin, the skin should be reattached through riveting the new skin to the keel, or to preexisting skin in the keel. Examination of the damaged float revealed that the right outboard bottom skin of the right float had separated from the keel. There was no evidence of preexisting skin in the keel or riveting of the new skin to the keel. There was no evidence of scratches or dents on the separated skin, and a witness reported that there were no obstructions in the water, and that the winds were calm.
Probable cause
The improper repair of a float by maintenance personnel which resulted in the total failure of the float.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC97FA178
- Event ID
- 20001208X08907
- Case number
- NYC97FA178
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ed052ae3f6926ca0c847e86281a91f288b3c43b133142eeb8f6081c44b90404d; retrieved 2026-09-20T22:50:10.475Z.