ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 34673
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Date: | Sunday 25 July 1993 |
Time: | 20:00 |
Type: | Cessna 310H |
Owner/operator: | Yehiam Konski t/a Konski Air |
Registration: | N310HJ |
MSN: | 310-0003 |
Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
Total airframe hrs: | 3048 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near William J. Fox Airport, Lancaster, California -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Grand Canyon, AZ (GCN) |
Destination airport: | Van Nuys, CA (VNY) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft was destroyed when it crashed near William J. Fox Airport, Lancaster. The pilot is said to have been known to make a practice of operating with minimum fuel reserves. The flight departed the airport with about 4.0 hours of fuel for a planned destination flight of 2.0 hours.
About 4 hours later, on return, the pilot contacted the airport control tower and requested and received landing instructions. There were no further communications between the flight and the control tower. Ground witnesses reported that the aircraft's engines began to 'splutter', followed by the aircraft entering into a spin. During the spin, both engines began to develop power which continued until impact. The wreckage examination disclosed evidence of power being developed at impact and that the left main fuel selector valve was selected to the cross-feed position. There was no evidence of any fuel in the fuel tanks or fuel spillage.
The NTSB determined the cause to be: The pilot's improper inflight planning/decision and his failure to maintain the minimum control airspeed which progressed to an inadvertent stall/spin. Factors relating to this accident were fuel exhaustion and the pilot's lack of experience in the accident aircraft
Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: LAX93FA300 at
https://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001211X12936 2. FAA:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=310HJ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
15-May-2016 20:47 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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