The National Transportation Safety Board determined that a pilot's failure to properly configure the landing gear of an amphibious Air Tractor AT-802A firefighting airplane caused a water-landing accident on a lake near Inguadona, Minnesota, during what the source account describes as a training event. The pilot was able to get out of the airplane without injury, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage to its wings and its floats separated from the airframe.
The final report, summarized by General Aviation News and logged under NTSB identification 195281, describes how a momentary…