ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226732
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| Date: | Monday 1 July 2019 |
| Time: | 11:55 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft A23 Musketeer II |
| Owner/operator: | BAP Group LLC |
| Registration: | N3598R |
| MSN: | M-779 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-346-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Crawford County south of Van Buren, AR -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Fort Smith Municipal Airport, AR (FSM/KFSM) |
| Fort Smith Municipal Airport, AR (FSM/KFSM) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor reported that the engine lost all power about 1 minute after he switched fuel tanks while returning to the airport after a local training flight. His efforts to restore engine power were unsuccessful and he performed a forced landing to a road. The airplane touched down hard and subsequently came to rest in a ditch adjacent to the road. Recovery personnel drained about 15 gallons of fuel from the left wing fuel tank and about 1/4 gallon from the right wing fuel tank. The fuel tanks appeared to be intact and no fuel leakage was observed.
A postaccident engine test run was conducted with no anomalies. Based on the minimal amount of fuel recovered from the right tank, it is likely that the flight instructor exhausted the fuel in the right tank and did not switch to the left fuel tank in sufficient time to restore engine power, which resulted in fuel starvation and the total loss of engine power.
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of the flight instructor's fuel mismanagement.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=3598R
NTSB CEN19LA194
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Jul-2019 20:53 | Geno | Added |
| 01-Jul-2019 21:03 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2021 11:43 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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