- Date
- June 21, 1982, 20:25 local (Jun 22, 1982, 01:25 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, IL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2419SCessna 337B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820621026809A
- Case key
- 70910
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During the initial climb after a touch & go, the rear eng stopped at about 100 to 200 ft AGL. The plt switched the fuel selector to right aux tank but was unable to restart the rear eng. At about 300 to 400 ft AGL the front eng stopped. The plt switched the fuel selector to the left aux tank but the eng did not respond. During descent the acft struck telephone cables before landing on a road & sliding into a corn field. The left & right main tanks contained approximately 5 gals each. The left aux tank read 0, the right read approximately 2 gals.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2419S
- Reported as
- Cessna 337B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3370719
- Airframe hours
- 2,271
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-C, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Earl W. Tucker
- Registered owner
- Morris Chapman And J.G. Carlso
- Departed
- H67 · Granite City, IL
- Destination
- H67 · Granite City, IL
- Airport
- GRE · Greenville Airport, runway 36, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,274 total · 2 in this make and model · 2,579 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.