ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 293435
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| Date: | Monday 8 November 2004 |
| Time: | 16:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32-260 |
| Owner/operator: | Richard Hunter Ranzau |
| Registration: | N411CP |
| MSN: | 32-7500003 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3378 hours |
| Engine model: | Avco Lycoming O-540-E4B5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chamblee, Georgia -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Atlanta-DeKalb Peachtree Airport, GA (PDK/KPDK) |
| Winder Airport, GA (WDR/KWDR) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Shortly after takeoff the engine started to "sputter" and lose power. Efforts by the pilot to restore power were unsuccessful. The pilot declared an emergency and during the forced landing the airplane collided with a house. Examination of the airplane found no fuel in the right and left main fuel tanks and about five gallons of fuel in the left tip tank. The right tip tank separated during the collision sequence. There was no browning of grass or remnants of fuel at the location of the right tip tank. Fuel was not present in the fuel lines leading from the right tip tank to the engine. The engine was successfully run. According to the pilot, the airplane departed with 14 gallons of fuel in the right tip tank.
Probable Cause: The pilot's mismanagement of the fuel supply, which resulted in fuel starvation and the subsequent loss of engine power. .
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL05LA022
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 05:48 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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