- Date
- March 10, 1992, 13:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Deland, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6418ACessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920310005699A
- Case key
- 33074
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain the proper airspeed (vs) resulting in an inadvertent stall. Factors in the accident were incorrect fuel selector position resulting in the total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation and fatigue of the pilot.
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
While on climb out after dropping a banner following the 3 hour flt, the eng quit. The plt attempted to turn back to the field, but the acft stalled & impacted the ground nose & lt wing low. Post crash examination of the acft revealed that the fuel selector was positioned to the rt fuel tank. The rt fuel tank was not ruptured. It was drained which revealed that it contained aprx 3.1 gals of fuel. The unusable fuel for each tank in all flt conditions is 2.5 gals. The carburetor bowl and fuel lines to the carburetor did not contain any fuel. The eng was started & found to operate normally. The fuel selector has four positions; left, right, both, & off. The plt stated that the night before the accident he had only slept 2-3 hrs. When asked how this accident could have been prevented he stated that he should have gotten more sleep & placed the fuel selector to the both position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6418A
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33218
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Red Baron Aerial Ads, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Red Baron Aerial Ads, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- 1J6 · Bob Lee Flight 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 600 in this make and model · 6,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F
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 N6418A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.