The pilots’ inadequate preflight fuel planning and improper in-flight fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion and subsequent deployment of the ballistic parachute recovery system.
aviation accidents
Simulated engine failure leads to collision with a runway light
The flight instructor’s inadequate remedial action during a simulated engine failure and low approach, which resulted in a collision with a runway light.
Pilot crashes after failing to check position of fuel selector
The pilot’s failure to check the fuel selector position before takeoff and his improper fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power. Also causal was the pilot’s loss of airplane control which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Experimental safety record at all-time best
Amateur-built aircraft fatal accidents have decreased 25% in the past decade, according to officials with the Experimental Aircraft Association.
Pilot hits runway edge light during aborted takeoff
The pilot’s inadvertent attempt to takeoff on a left side of runway, rather than the centerline of runway, which resulted in a collision with runway edge lights during the night time takeoff.
Forced landing follows in-flight fuel exhaustion
The pilot’s inadequate inflight fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Flight into valley ends in crash
The pilot’s flight into a valley with rising terrain that the airplane was incapable of out-climbing.
Too fast turn bends Cessna 310
The pilot’s failure to slow the airplane down prior to turning off the runway, which resulted in damage to the airplane’s fuselage structure in the vicinity of the nose landing gear.
Human Factors: A poorly-timed thumb’s up
There are only two types of pilots in the world: Those who have left the wheel chocks in place and those who will.