ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 43855
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| Date: | Sunday 4 March 2007 |
| Time: | 15:25 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft C55 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | Northwest Jersey Airways Inc |
| Registration: | N100FG |
| MSN: | TE-438 |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental IO-520-C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Port Orange, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Port Orange, FL (7FL6) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane was observed to yaw to the left immediately after becoming airborne, and climbed no more than 75 feet above ground level while flying southbound with the landing gear extended. Several witnesses reported hearing a sputtering or surging sound from the left engine, and after clearing the roof of a hangar by only 25 feet while flying in a nose-up attitude, the airplane banked to the right then rolled to the left, pitched down, and impacted the ground nearly vertical coming to rest with the empennage elevated approximately 20 degrees past vertical. No preimpact failure or malfunction was noted with the flight controls. Both fuel selectors were found set to the auxiliary tank position contrary to a placard adjacent to both fuel selectors. The left and right auxiliary fuel tanks contained approximately 1/4 and 9.0 gallons respectively, of 100LL uncontaminated fuel. The left engine was placed in a test stand and found to operate normally. Examination of the right engine revealed no evidence of preimpact failure or malfunction. Fuel injection components of the right engine were bench tested or examined with no evidence of preimpact failure or malfunction.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during initial climb resulting in inadvertent stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper positioning of the left fuel selector which resulted in fuel starvation to the left engine.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20070312X00271&key=1
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:24 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 04-Dec-2017 18:32 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Nov-2022 23:10 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 07-Jun-2023 06:00 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Location]] |
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