ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 266544
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| Date: | Friday 28 February 2020 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Embraer EMB-201A Ipanema |
| Owner/operator: | CEAL Aviação Agricola Ltda |
| Registration: | PT-GYU |
| MSN: | 200469 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ivaté-Fazenda Serra Dourada Airstrip, PR -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Ivaté-Fazenda Serra Dourada Airstrip, PR |
| Ivaté-Fazenda Serra Dourada Airstrip, PR | |
| Investigating agency: | CENIPA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off from the Fazenda Serra Dourada Airstrip, in the municipality of Ivaté, PR, around 19:30 UTC, in order to perform application of pesticides. After take-off, the aircraft lost power and the pilot made an emergency landing in a sugarcane field.
The company had established a procedure that consisted of refuelling and using only the tank on the right side for aerial application flights. The previous repositioning flight was conducted using the left fuel tank. The checklist was not used prior to the accident flight and the left tank was still selected. Fuel starvation occurred and the engine lost power.
Contributing Factors
- Attention - contributed;
- Characteristics of the task - contributed;
- Organisational culture - contributed;
- Memory - contributed;
- Work organisation - contributed;
- Support systems - undetermined; and
- Managerial supervision - contributed.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CENIPA
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Aug-2021 17:08 | harro | Added |
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