Field Notes Doug Bell August 13, 1989 his careful [illegible]. Even before the engine went, I noticed he constantly checked his levers and throttle. He never just "set back", but was constantly alert. Before take off I noticed a sign "This plane flies on one engine at altitude less than 6000' absolute maximum". Well, we were flying, but he couldn't maintain altitude. Too great a load. We kept descended descending, right on thru the clouds. Sara said we had no engines, but that wasn't so, fortunately. Nevertheless, as we came out below the clouds, Middleton was ca 5 miles away, and we had only 400' altitude. The pilot was asking Brian exactly where the runway was, including the short one. But he couldn't maintain altitude, and since the runways were up on high cliffs, he elected to drop the goose in the water. He had no choice, really. He again conferred with Brian about what spot would be best. We had no altitude left, so we essentially went down off the NE point, down the island about 1/4 mile from that point itself. The pilot had to leave the gear up, for fear of us getting stuck on a reef. We landed very well, very smooth. The ocean was calm, almost no wind or swell!! We began taping to the beach. About 300 yards off we bumped over one reef, but then we made it all the way in to a rocky beach, with the help of Brian "paddling like mad" on the left side of