by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 19, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250403, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, NTSB, NTSB Accidents, Pilots
Probable Cause: The airplane owner/builder’s inappropriate use of a lower grade fuel than that required by the airplane and engine operations manual, which resulted in engine detonation and the degradation and eventual obliteration of the Nos. 1 and 2 cylinder spark...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 16, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250403, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, LSA, NTSB, NTSB Accidents, Pilots
Probable Cause: The pilot’s lack of proper maintenance, which allowed the fuel filters to become obstructed, leading to fuel starvation and a subsequent engine power loss. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 4, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250424, aviation accidents, Aviation News, Briefings, flying, General Aviation, News, NTSB, Pilots
Now pilots can submit NTSB Form 6120.1 on a phone or computer directly on the NTSB website, “providing a user-friendly option that also ends the need for investigators to manually input the information,” NTSB officials said. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 4, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250403, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, NTSB, NTSB Accidents, Pilots
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power as a result of fuel contamination. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 1, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250403, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, NTSB, NTSB Accidents, Pilots
Probable Cause: The pilot’s inadequate fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Mar 29, 2025 | #Aircraft, 20250306, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, NTSB, NTSB Accidents, Pilots
Probable Cause: Maintenance personnel’s failure to secure the fuel strainer bowl with safety wire, which resulted in the fuel strainer bowl leaking and starving the engine of fuel. Also causal was the obstruction of two fuel injector nozzles. Read...
