ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292012
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 July 2006 |
| Time: | 10:45 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 182D Skylane |
| Owner/operator: | John Cardos |
| Registration: | N8961X |
| MSN: | 18253361 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental O-470L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Clarita, California -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cameron Park, CA (O61) |
| Los Angeles-Whiteman Airport, CA (WHP/KWHP) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The engine lost power due to fuel exhaustion and the airplane collided with rocks during a forced landing in a riverbed. The pilot refueled the airplane before departure and flew approximately 2 hours before the engine lost power. He switched from the left fuel tank to the right tank and the engine restarted; however, it lost complete power about 10 minutes later. A Federal Aviation Administration inspector examined the airplane at the accident site and recovered a residual amount of fuel from the right tank and no fuel from the left tank. He noted that the right fuel cap O-ring was split and there was heavy blue staining from the fuel cap, aft in a slip stream induced pattern to the trailing edge of the wing.
Probable Cause: A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. The fuel exhaustion was the result of a split O-ring on the right fuel cap, which allowed fuel to siphon out of the right fuel tank during flight.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX06CA244
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 08-Oct-2022 13:28 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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