# Fuel service/equipment

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Operating environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0301) › [Airport facilities/design](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030170) › Fuel service/equipment
- NTSB code: 03017065
- Cases: 2
- In the probable cause: 2
- Fatal cases: 1
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03017065/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03017065/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03017065

## Cases per year (in the probable cause / all)

- 2014: 2 / 2

## Defining events in these cases

- [Fuel contamination](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/193): 1 cases
- [Aircraft servicing event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/020): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Cessna 421C](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-421c): 1 cases
- [Bell 206B](https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-206b): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Fuel](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01071010) (Aircraft): 2 cases
- [Testing records](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04033020) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Adequacy of equipment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04022025) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Use of equip/system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063015) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Preflight inspection](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02061510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Lack of action](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041030) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Incorrect action selection](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041010) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Engine (reciprocating), general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01058500) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB CEN14FA462](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN14FA462), Aug 28, 2014: Cessna 421C (N51RX), Las Cruces, NM, destroyed, 4 fatal. Probable cause: The misfueling of the airplane with jet fuel instead of the required aviation fuel, and the resultant detonation and a total loss of engine power during initial climb. Contributing to the accident…
- [NTSB CEN14LA390](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN14LA390), Jul 26, 2014: Bell 206B (N240SJ), Bennet, NE, substantial damage. Probable cause: A total loss of engine power due to fuel contamination, which resulted from the pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection. Contributing to the accident was the operator’s failure to properly maintain…

NTSB has coded findings and defining events since 2008; earlier cases used its older occurrence and cause codes and aren't counted.

Findings: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings.md. Defining events: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events.md. Phases of flight: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases.md. Every investigation, filtered by finding, event, phase, state, year or model: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb.md (for example ?state=MI&fatal=1).

NTSB's definitions: Accident and incident, 49 CFR 830.2 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-VIII/part-830/subpart-A/section-830.2), CICTT occurrence categories (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/OccurrenceCategoryDefinitions.pdf), CICTT phases of flight (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/PhaseofFlightDefinitions.pdf), and NTSB coding manual, before 2008 (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). NTSB publishes no definitions for its findings, only their names.

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