- Date
- April 21, 1992, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Paula, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2489TNavion G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920421010589A
- Case key
- 27603
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper aircraft preflight by failing to assure the fuel selector handle was in the proper position. Factors relating to this accident was the engine fuel starvation.
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 preflight run-up the pilot failed to position the fuel selector handle in the detent position. When taking off the engine sustained a total loss of power. The pilot elected to land on the available remaining runway that was insufficient to stop the airplane. The airplane exited the runway and collided with a small storage building and a block wall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2489T
- Reported as
- Navion G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4-2489
- Airframe hours
- 2,521
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Niles, William L.
- Registered owner
- Niles, William L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 6, 1992
- Airport
- SZP · Santa Paula, runway 22, 2,650 × 40 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,374 total · 221 in this make and model · 4,374 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.