ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 386296
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Date: | Thursday 18 January 2001 |
Time: | 16:00 LT |
Type: | Cessna 150G |
Owner/operator: | Phillip Edward Reed |
Registration: | N6281S |
MSN: | 15067081 |
Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
Total airframe hrs: | 4484 hours |
Engine model: | Continental O-200 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | La Rose, IL -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Peru-Illinois Valley Regional-Walter A Duncan field, IL (KVYS) |
Destination airport: | Lacon, IL (C75) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The airplane sustained substantial damage during nose over encountered on a forced landing to a snow covered field, following an in-flight loss of engine power. The pilot was uninjured. The pilot stated, "In order to describe the circumstances leading up to this accident in chronological order we have to go back to the ending of my last flight. I have been flying this aircraft for the past nineteen years and the ending of every flight was a stop at the fuel pumps to top up the tanks." The pilot did not state that he looked in the fuel tanks during the airplane's preflight for the accident flight. He stated that he perceived that the fuel gauges indicated full. He said, "They are always full. ... My conclusion - Someone between my last flight and this, someone entered my hanger and removed 76% (17 gals) of the useable fuel from my airplane." The airplane's engine was test run at low power and it ran smoothly. Fuel was put in each tank and the fuel gauges indicated above empty. Fuel was found leaking from around the shaft of the fuel shut off valve.
Probable Cause: the pilot's inadequate airplane preflight and the snow covered terrain. A factor was the fuel exhaustion.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | CHI01LA068 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB CHI01LA068
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