ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 297185
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| Date: | Friday 7 June 2002 |
| Time: | 17:12 LT |
| Type: |  Mooney M20E |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N1285X |
| MSN: | 158 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-A1A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Placerville, California -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | BRIDGEPORT, CA (O57) |
| Placerville Airport, CA (PVF/KPVF) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
About 6 miles from the pilot's home airport, all engine power was lost. The airplane impacted trees during its approach to a landing. A witness reported observing the airplane glide in very quietly with its propeller barely turning "as if only from the wind." The witness indicated that the airplane "skipped off the ground once, as if trying to land, and then lifted back into the air again." Thereafter, the airplane came back down and crashed into a grove of trees. The accident site was about 6 miles from the pilot's destination airport. No evidence of fuel spillage was noted on the ground around the crashed airplane. Between 10 and 15 drops of fuel were found in fuel lines. No evidence of preimpact mechanical malfunctions was observed during the engine examination.
Probable Cause: A loss of engine power due to the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision which led to fuel exhaustion.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX02LA187
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 14-Oct-2022 15:32 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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