ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 21844
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| Date: | Saturday 26 July 2008 |
| Time: | 17:45 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-12 |
| Owner/operator: | Paramount Air Service Inc |
| Registration: | N4361M |
| MSN: | 12-3298 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1947 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming 0-320 SERIES |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cape May Court House, NJ -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Banner and glider towing |
| Departure airport: | |
| Lakewood, NJ (N12) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
About four hours into the banner-towing flight the engine started to sputter and lost lower. The pilot reported that his inflight fuel burn calculations were based on fuel burn data gathered during the previous month. Using these data, the pilot thought he had about 15-20 minutes of fuel remaining when the engine lost power. The pilot made a forced landing near a residential area and the airplane struck a fence, resulting in substantial damage. A Federal Aviation inspector looked at the fuel tanks at the accident site and found they were empty. The pilot stated that "in order to reduce my total flight time and land with required fuel minimums, I should have turned inland at an earlier point."
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot's inadequate fuel management.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 July 2012 | N4361M | Paramount Air Service Inc | 0 | Green Creek, New Jersey | |
sub |
| Fuel starvation | ||||||
Location
Images:
Taken at Catalina Motel on July 26
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Jul-2008 08:31 | jorgetadeu7 | Added |
| 28-Jul-2008 21:08 | 78Delta | Updated |
| 04-May-2009 13:03 | Anon. | Updated |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:14 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:16 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:20 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 03-Dec-2017 11:27 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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