- Date
- September 11, 2024, 10:46 local (15:46 UTC)
- Place
- Schaumburg, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1429TPiper PA-28-140
- Defining event
- Approach: 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 Chicago
- FAA report
- 20240911016239A
- Case key
- 195104
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 flight crew’s fuel mismanagement resulting in the loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.
Findings · 3
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 flight instructor was giving instruction to a private pilot. After an uneventful flight, the airplane was near its intended destination airport to make a full stop landing. The engine lost power and a forced landing was made about 0.27 miles from the airport. During the landing, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, empennage, and both wings. The airplane had usable fuel in the right fuel tank. The flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction had selected the left fuel tank, which ran dry. The engine lost power due to fuel starvation. The operator stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1429T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7225512
- Built
- 1972
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320/E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 7, 2024 · 5,710 hours before
- Departed
- JVL · Janesville, WI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- O6C · Schaumburg Regional Airport
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 34
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 5, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 368 total · 38 in this make and model · 120 in the last 90 days · 65 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 20, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 93 total · 3 in this make and model · 53 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KORD, 7 nm away
- METAR
- KORD 111551Z 19006KT 10SM FEW250 27/11 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP189 T02670106
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 8, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.9 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.