Probable Cause: Airport personnel’s failure to properly prioritize their response actions, including updating the airport’s automated weather observation system recording in a timely manner to notify incoming pilots of a runway closure, which resulted in an airplane striking an immobilized airplane on the runway during landing at night. Contributing to the accident was the airport’s inadequate emergency response plan.
NTSB Accidents
Fuel Starvation Followed By Forced Landing in a Field
Probable Cause: The pilot’s improper fuel management resulting in fuel starvation, a total loss of engine power, and subsequent off-airport forced landing.
Training Flight Ends In Gear-Up Landing
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear and the flight instructor’s lack of recognition and inadequate remedial action, which resulted in a gear up landing.
Student Loses Control During Crosswind Landing
Probable Cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during the crosswind landing, which resulted in the airplane drifting off the left side of the runway and into trees.
Glider Pilot Injured When Tow Plane Loses Power
Probable Cause: The glider pilot’s failure to release from the towline after the tow plane experienced a loss of engine power.
Carb Icing Leads To Total Loss Of Engine Power
Probable Cause: The total loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the pilot’s failure to utilize carburetor heat in meteorological conditions conducive to the formation of carburetor icing.
Engine Failure Leads To Forced Landing
Probable Cause: The disruption of torque to the No 4 connecting rod journals, which resulted in a spun bearing and the subsequent total loss of engine power.
Takeoff From Private Airstrip Fatal For Two
Probable Cause: The pilot’s collision with a fence while taking off from a snow-covered dirt airstrip.
Pilot loses control during go-around
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a go-around in gusting crosswind conditions.