- Date
- June 6, 1991, 07:30 local (11:30 UTC)
- Place
- Muskegon, MI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N713OXCessna U206F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14904
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Probable cause
Inadequate remedial action by the pilot after exhausting all the fuel from a selected fuel tank. Factors associated with the accident are the pilots inadequate transition and upgrade training and a lack of familiarity with the accident airplane.
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
The accident airplane was found in a wooded area early in the morning. Two deceased foreign nationals were in the wreckage. Both persons were certificated by their government as pilots. One of the persons was certificated in the U.S. As a commercial pilot. Documents found aboard the airplane show the airplane was sold by the operator to the pilot passenger. An export certificate of airworthiness was in the airplane. The airplane started its ferry flight out of the country the evening before it was found when found the fuel tanks in both wings were broken open. There was wilted and discolored vegetation under the right wing only. The fuel tank selector switch was positioned to draw fuel from the right wing. The switch for the electric fuel pump was selected to the off position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N713OX
- Reported as
- Cessna U206F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U206 02721
- Engine
- Continental I0 520F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard A. Grey
- Registered owner
- Richard A. Grey
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 22, 1991 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- 3AU · Augusta, KS
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificates
- Foreign, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 635 total · 480 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 70° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Observed at
- MKG, 5 nm away