Accident Cessna U206G VH-SFU, Tuesday 23 August 1988

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Date:	Tuesday 23 August 1988
Time:	12:35
Type:	Cessna U206G
Owner/operator:
Registration:	VH-SFU
MSN:	U206-04725
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	2km W of Tipplers' Passage, QLD - Australia
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Tipplers' Passage, QLD
Destination airport:	Tipplers' Passage, QLD
Investigating agency:	BASI
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The pilot was demonstrating step turns whilst taxiing to his passenger, who holds a pilot licence. Whilst turning left at 30 to 35 knots the aircraft hit a submerged sandbar, in about 15 centimetres of water and overturned. The passenger received a lacerated ankle. The pilot stated that the sandbar was not visible due to a combination of an overcast sky and a ripple on the surface of the channel.

Accident investigation: