ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 370497
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| Date: | Friday 20 April 2001 |
| Time: | 14:00 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-31-350 |
| Owner/operator: | Crow Executive Air |
| Registration: | N4078L |
| MSN: | PA31-81520060 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10334 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming TIO-540-J2BD |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Newark, OH -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Fort Wayne Municipal Airport/Baer Field, IN (FWA/KFWA) |
| Newark Heath Airport, OH (KVTA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After landing, while taxing back to the ramp area, the pilot observed a fire in the left engine. He secured the engine and evacuated the airplane. Examination of the engine revealed that the fuel boost pump was leaking. At the time, the pump manufacturer had a service bulletin to inspect, and retorque if necessary, four screws that secured the pump valve assembly. Examination and testing of the pump at the manufacturer's facility revealed that the wrong set of four screws had been torqued. Discussions between the pump manufacturer and airplane operator revealed that there was some ambiguity in the current service bulletin, and the maintenance personnel were confused at to which four screws the bulletin referred to. Subsequently, the pump manufacturer revised the service bulletin.
Probable Cause: The company maintenance personnel's failure to comply with the service bulletin, which resulted in a fuel boost pump leakage and subsequent fire during taxi. A factor was the manufacturer's confusing service bulletin.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB NYC01IA126
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 25-Mar-2024 11:20 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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