ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 386062
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| Date: | Friday 6 April 2001 |
| Time: | 19:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-25-235 |
| Owner/operator: | Night Hawk Aerial Advertising |
| Registration: | N4514Y |
| MSN: | 25-4066 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Pearland, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Houston-Pearland Regional Airport, TX (KLVJ) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot returned to his home base after a banner towing flight. He experienced difficulty releasing the banner and landed on the grass between two runways. He dragged the banner on the ground and it eventually released; however, he was too close to the end of the runway to stop, so he performed a go-around. While he was in the traffic pattern, "he ran out of fuel" and the engine "quit." The pilot was unable to make it back to the runway and elected to make a forced landing into trees in a residential area. Subsequently, the airplane impacted the trees.
Probable Cause: the pilot's failure to refuel the airplane, which resulted in fuel exhaustion while in the traffic pattern.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB FTW01LA094
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 April 2005 | N4514Y | Nighthawk Aerial Advertising Inc. | 0 | Houston, Texas | |
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 05-Apr-2024 10:47 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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