ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 186118
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| Date: | Sunday 3 April 2016 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-42-720 Cheyenne IIIA |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | 4X-CMD |
| MSN: | 42-5501040 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Tel Aviv-Sde Dov Airport (SDV/LLSD) -
 Israel
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Tel Aviv-Yafo-Sde-Dov Airport (SDV/LLSD) |
| Tel Aviv-Yafo-Sde-Dov Airport (SDV/LLSD) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIAI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A team of pilots went for a short training mission in a Piper PA-42-720, from Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv. During the second training circuit to runway 03, at an altitude of approximately 600 feet, the right engine suddenly shut down. The crew performed emergency operations, reported the emergency situation, and secured the engine and asked to make a long final, in order to prepare for a landing with one engine. After the turn to final approach the left engine shut down. The plane's crew estimated that it would not be able to land on the runway safely and chose to make a ditching in the sea, as close as possible to the coast. The pilot announced his intention to the Sde Dov tower and landed safely in the water. Rescuers from Sde Dov swam towards the plane, while the plane's crew rescued themselves from the plane unharmed.
The shutting down of the two engines in flight was directly caused by the loss of fuel in the plane's tanks, without the pilots being aware of it during the entire flight and the emergency they experienced.
The system for measuring the amount of fuel in the plane's tanks was not calibrated and it "falsified" upwards, at a linear rate - when the amount of fuel in the plane was minimal, the indicators displayed a larger total amount, around 120 pounds (50/+.)
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4786830,00.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/80622408@N07/21496750425
http://www.timesofisrael.com/light-plane-crash-lands-in-sea-off-tel-aviv-coast/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/122473678@N03/23474460935
Media:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Apr-2016 14:58 | Claudiog | Added |
| 03-Apr-2016 15:02 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 03-Apr-2016 16:56 | Hans Gruber | Updated [Registration, Operator, Nature, Source, Embed code] |
| 03-Apr-2016 16:58 | harro | Updated [Cn, Nature, Destination airport] |
| 03-Apr-2016 19:11 | Geno | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Apr-2016 10:26 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 05-Apr-2016 16:55 | tinkicker | Updated [Damage] |
| 06-Aug-2017 15:37 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code] |
| 18-May-2023 09:29 | harro | Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code]] |
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