- Date
- December 19, 1992, 16:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Rexburg, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N911AGCessna 414A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921219053369A
- Case key
- 42972
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot did not select the remaining fuel supply. Factors include a deteriorated fuel selector valve.
Analysis
The pilot noted a fuel imbalance, with more fuel remaining in the left main tanks. A forced landing was made when both engines lost power, after exhausting the fuel from the right main tanks. The pilot failed to access the approximate fifty gallons remaining of the left main fuel supply by positioning the right fuel selector in crossfeed position for the right engine. Later trouble shooting revealed that the left fuel selector valve had not been in its detent, and both engines had been feeding from the right main tanks. O rings in the fuel valve had deterioraed to the extent that the internal spool valve felt like it was in its detent when it was not.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N911AG
- Reported as
- Cessna 414A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 414A-0438
- Airframe hours
- 2,201
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dr. Charles O. Garrison
- Registered owner
- Nine Eleven Alpha Golf, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 16, 1992 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- PIH · Pocatello, ID
- Destination
- PIH
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 902 total · 144 in this make and model · 724 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 7 °F, dew point 1 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IDA, 30 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.