- Date
- February 23, 1992, 07:25 local (14:25 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1852ZBeech A36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920223003349A
- Case key
- 41633
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent activation of the fuel boost pump. Factors to the accident were: poor aircraft preflight. Diverted attention, and inadequate remedial action.
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
Shortly after takeoff, the pilot was in the process of turning off the fresh air blower when the cockpit door opened. Instead of turning off the blower, the pilot turned on the fuel boost pump. The engine flooded and lost power. The flight returned to the airport, where the airplane landed short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1852Z
- Reported as
- Beech A36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-266
- Airframe hours
- 1,030
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Glenn Rudel
- Registered owner
- Glenn Rudel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 13, 1991 · 50 hours before
- Destination
- 36U · Heber City, UT
- Airport
- SLC · Salt Lake City, runway 34, 9,596 × 150 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,905 total · 1,500 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N1852Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.