ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292636
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| Date: | Sunday 12 February 2006 |
| Time: | 14:55 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft C23 |
| Owner/operator: | Yuzo Wakita |
| Registration: | N3724Z |
| MSN: | M-2281 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4764 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360-A4K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | San Jose, California -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | San Jose-Reid-Hillview Airport, CA (RHV/KRHV) |
| San Jose-Reid-Hillview Airport, CA (RHV/KRHV) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After losing engine power in the traffic pattern, the airplane touched down hard in an uneven field during a forced landing short of the runway. The pilot had been on a local sightseeing flight. He tried to contact the air traffic control tower, but was unable to do so due to frequency congestion. He crossed over the airport at midfield, and was heading eastbound at 2,000 feet when the engine lost power. He turned back toward the airport to attempt a landing, and informed the tower that he had an engine failure and wanted to make an emergency landing. The tower cleared him to land on runway 31R. He entered for a short final below 1,000 feet and turned to the right toward the end of the runway at 500 feet or less. He overshot the turn to final for 31R, and felt the airplane stall while in a steep turn. He decided that he could not make the runway, and headed to a grass field near the end of the runway. He slowed to 60 knots, touched down hard in the uneven field, and skidded across a road. Airport operations personnel inspected the fuel tanks and found that the right tank was dry and the left tank had several gallons. The pilot informed them that he forgot to switch fuel tanks from the right tank to the left prior to landing.
Probable Cause: fuel starvation due to the pilot's improper fuel system management and failure to select the proper fuel tank. A factor was the rough, uneven terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX06LA111
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 November 1997 | N3724Z | Air Accord | 0 | Corona, CA | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 09-Oct-2022 07:07 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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