ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 152501
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| Date: | Sunday 13 January 2013 |
| Time: | 18:45 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N4975S |
| MSN: | 28R-35693 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5613 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dover, DE -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Sandersville, GA (OKZ) |
| Middletown, DE (EVY) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot had planned a night instrument cross-country flight of 3 hours 45 minutes, with 5 hours 30 minutes of fuel onboard. About 3 hours 20 minutes into the flight, when the airplane was about 15 miles from the intended destination airport, the pilot diverted after the airplane ahead of him performed a missed approach due to the low cloud ceiling. The pilot diverted to a nearby airport where the wind was calm and the ceiling was overcast at 400 feet above ground level (agl). The airport was equipped with a precision (instrument landing system [ILS]) approach, which the pilot did not attempt; instead, he attempted two GPS approaches to the opposite end of the runway. During both GPS approaches, the pilot performed missed approaches before the airplane reached the decision altitude of 306 feet agl.
Then, about 4 hours 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot diverted again, this time to an airport that was not equipped with an ILS approach and had a reported overcast layer of clouds at 300 feet agl. He performed a GPS approach to that airport, during which he descended the airplane below the approach’s published minimum descent altitude of 310 feel agl, to about 250 feet agl, before he performed a missed approach. After the missed approach, about 5 hours into the flight, the pilot advised the air traffic controller that he was low on fuel and diverted to another airport with no ILS approach to attempt a very high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR) approach. The pilot was in contact with air traffic control and could have declared an emergency and performed an ILS approach to a military airport that he overflew en route to the airport with the VOR approach; however, he did not. The pilot was cleared for the VOR approach about 5 hours 5 minutes into the flight and declared an emergency 6 minutes later, reporting fuel exhaustion. Air traffic control personnel provided the pilot with radar vectors to the military airport he had overflown, but the airplane impacted wooded terrain about 2 miles before it reached the runway at that airport.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to land the airplane at multiple airports that were equipped with adequate instrument approach procedures while operating in low instrument meteorological conditions and his delay in declaring a fuel-related emergency, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N4975S/history/20130113/1800Z/KOKZ/KSBY
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Jan-2013 07:17 | gerard57 | Added |
| 14-Jan-2013 08:17 | bizjets101 | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jan-2013 10:37 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jan-2013 10:38 | RobertMB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 14-Jan-2013 23:45 | 78Delta | Updated [Embed code] |
| 22-Jan-2014 21:02 | Geno | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 18-Aug-2017 07:21 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 18-Aug-2017 07:23 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Sep-2017 17:46 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 28-Nov-2017 14:05 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 03-Jul-2022 12:31 | rvargast17 | Updated [Source, Embed code, Damage] |
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