ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179591
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| Date: | Friday 6 December 1991 |
| Time: | 11:30 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34-200 Seneca |
| Owner/operator: | Táxi Aéreo Azeitona |
| Registration: | PT-JYJ |
| MSN: | 34-7450149 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 18 km from Belém, PA -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| SBJC | |
| Investigating agency: | CENIPA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Crashed.
A. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT
HUMAN FACTOR: The long flight experience of the pilot, together with the fact that he had already suffered numerous accidents and had gotten out of them all alive, apparently contributed to the occurrence of the accident, because he did not check the amount of fuel in the tanks, believing that the fuel indicators were giving incorrect indications.
B. OPERATIONAL FACTOR
DEFICIENT SUPPORT PERSONNEL: The lack of an element to guard the aircraft in the place where the accident took place contributed to the occurrence of the accident, facilitating the theft of the fuel. FORGOTTENESS: The pilot did not check the amount of fuel in the tanks.
NEGLIGENCE: The pilot was negligent with the safety rules, due to his great flight experience and self-confidence.
IMFRUDENCE: The pilot was reckless because he intentionally and unnecessarily compromised safety by not checking the amount of fuel in the tanks, since the tanks had been [unintelligible] the day before, but the fuel indicators indicated incorrectly.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Folha de São Paulo 7 December 1991, p1-10
http://sistema.cenipa.aer.mil.br/cenipa/paginas/relatorios/rf/pt/RINIC_PTJYJ_ACIDENTE_06_12_1991.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Sep-2015 19:30 | TB | Added |
| 15-Sep-2015 19:32 | TB | Updated [Registration] |
| 24-Nov-2021 09:22 | KagurazakaHanayo | Updated [Time, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Nov-2021 09:24 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Accident report] |
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