- Date
- October 28, 1986, 09:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hilo, HI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N306MAMurrayair MA-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861028075779A
- Case key
- 25287
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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
After returning from a spraying flt, the acft was refueled. After refueling, the plt used fuel to wash oil from the side of the acft & the wing step. When the eng was restarted about 2 min later, fuel fumes ignited & fire spread to the fuel truck. Both the acft & the truck were destroyed by fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N306MA
- Reported as
- Murrayair MA-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 006
- Airframe hours
- 7,920
- Engine
- Wright R-1820, 900 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Murrayair, Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 18, 1986 · 61 hours before
- Airport
- Duster Strip
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 8,558 total · 840 in this make and model · 840 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
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 N306MA · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.