- Date
- April 4, 1986, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ocklawaha, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N742JMPiper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860404009719A
- Case key
- 31492
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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
The pvt plt refueled his acft the night before the flt and was observed to drain only the firewall strainer. The morning of the flt he did not drain any drains. About half way to his destination an eng pwr loss was experienced, he declared an emergency and landed at an intermediate airfield. He did not shut down the eng but ran it for aprx 15 to 30 minutes and had his wife exit to acft and check the fuel quantity in the left tank only. The plt then departed and was next observed flying over his destination arpt at about 300 ft AGL. Witnesses then heard the eng rapidly lose pwr and the acft crashed into trees. Only 1 and 1/2 gallons of fuel were found at the accident site and the eng fuel pump, fuel control, fuel control strainer and fuel injector divider block all had water in them and no fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N742JM
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7737123
- Airframe hours
- 2,346
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James T. Barnett
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 1985 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Destination
- Ocklawaha, FL
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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 305 total · 29 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 38 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.