The pilot’s loss of directional control during a high-speed taxi operation and subsequent collision with terrain during the inadvertent flight.
NTSB Accidents
Disoriented pilot crashes on house
The pilot’s failure to maintain altitude during an instrument approach, which resulted in an impact with power lines.
Task-saturated pilot seriously injured in crash
The pilot’s failure to properly configure the airplane’s fuel system, which resulted in a loss of engine power on the left engine due to fuel starvation.
Pilot loses control on snow-covered backcountry airstrip
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane while landing on a snow-covered unimproved runway.
PT-17 hits wires, then river
The pilot’s improper decision to conduct an intentional low altitude flight which resulted in a collision with wires and impact with terrain.
Demo flight goes awry
Fuel starvation resulting in a loss of engine power.
Takeoff into IMC fatal for student pilot and passenger
The student pilot’s decision to depart into night instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation and a loss of airplane control.
Pilot: Fuel may have been an issue
The pilot’s improper fuel management, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection.
Plane ends up in bay after pilot positions fuel selector in wrong place
The pilot’s inadvertent selection of an off fuel selector position, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.