- Date
- January 16, 1991, 09:27 local (17:27 UTC)
- Place
- Arcadia, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9541CPiper PA-28-201T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 27094
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Probable cause
Improper installation of the recently overhauled powerplant by maintenance personnel and inadequate inspection by maintenance personnel which failed to detect that the engine fuel pressure gauge line was not properly secured to the fuel system manifold valve.
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 airplane recently had its powerplant overhauled. The accident flight was the first flight after the installation of the overhauled engine. During cruise flight the engine lost power. The airplane force landed in a parking lot. During the landing roll the airplane struck a fence and slid into a ditch. CFR personnel noticed fuel leaking from under the engine cowling. Post accident examination of the engine revealed the fuel pressure line from the fuel manifold valve to the fuel pressure gauge came loose in flight at the engine fuel manifold valve.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9541C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-201T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7803265
- Airframe hours
- 1,707
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360FBIB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Dan E. Wolfe
- Registered owner
- Dan E. Wolfe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 14, 1991 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- BUR · Burbank, CA
- Destination
- L67 · Rialto, CA
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,820 total · 10 in this make and model · 2,195 as pilot in command · 128 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EMT, 5 nm away