- Date
- May 11, 2022, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marshall, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N29257Piper PA-34-200T
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fuel starvation
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220511007419A
- Case key
- 105064
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to manage fuel, which resulted in a loss of engine power to both engines due to fuel starvation.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was on a visual flight rules cross-country flight. About an hour into the trip, at 6,500 ft and about 10 miles from his destination airport, the pilot realized that both engines lost power. Examination of the airplane after the accident revealed that the left-wing fuel tank was empty, and the right-wing fuel tank was about 2/3 full. The right tank fuel selector was in the crossfeed position, and the left tank fuel selector was in the “ON” position. Both engines lost power when they were starved of fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29257
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970244
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 8,086
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-360E, 280 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental TSIO-360E, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Blackwell Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Blackwell Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 10, 2021
- Departed
- T67 · Fort Worth, TX
- Destination
- HUT · Hutchinson, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 22, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 130 total · 64 in this make and model · 4 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KOKC, 86 nm away
- METAR
- KOKC 111552Z 18016KT 10 SM FEW200 BKN250 27/20 A3006 RMK A02 SLP163 T02670200
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N29257 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.