Student Pilot FORGETS to Switch Fuel Tanks | EMERGENCY LANDING
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- Incident one:
Student Pilot on SOLO FORGETS to Switch Fuel Tanks| EMERGECY LANDING ON FIELD
Location: VERO BEACH, Florida
Description:
On December 2, 2019, a Piper PA28 Warrior, N558PU, was substantially damaged during a emergency landing in a field. The student pilot was not injured. The pilot departed VRB earlier in the day for a solo, cross-country flight. He took off from VRB with full fuel tanks and landed uneventfully at another airport. He intended to switch fuel tanks one hour into the flight, contrary to the flight school's policy of every 30 minutes. He forgot to switch tanks prior to landing at the other airport and did not switch tanks on the ground prior to departure. During the return flight to VRB, he again did not switch fuel tanks. While in the traffic pattern at VRB, the engine lost all power and quit. Unable to glide to runway 4, he performed a forced landing in a field to the south of the airport. During the landing roll, the airplane collided with a tree, separating the left wing from the airframe. Both wings and the fuselage were structurally damaged.
The left wing fuel tank was not breached and contained no fuel.
The right wing fuel tank was completely full of fuel. The cockpit fuel selector handle was found in the left tank position.The 22-year-old student pilot seemed stunned and without words.
• Student Pilot FORGETS ...
Incident Two:
Pilot disregards BAD WEATHER and crashes short of runway!
The flight instructor and the private pilot, who was receiving instruction, departed for a cross-country flight without obtaining an official weather briefing. As they approached their destination airport, they encountered instrument meteorological conditions, including thunderstorms and low-level wind shear advisories. Despite receiving wind and weather information from the tower controller at the destination, they continued the approach into deteriorating weather conditions.
As they neared the final approach fix, rain intensity increased, and the controller issued a low-altitude alert. Despite this, the aircraft continued descending and ultimately crashed into houses before coming to rest inverted in a retention pond.
The flight instructor failed to anticipate the impact of thunderstorms on the flight and disregarded severe weather advisories. Both pilots failed to recognize the hazardous weather conditions and did not consider diverting to an alternate airport.
Probable Cause:
The pilots' improper in-flight weather evaluation and decision to continue the approach, which resulted in an encounter with a thunderstorm, a loss of airplane control, and collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inadequate preflight weather evaluation.
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A student pilot solo with gusts to 27 knots?
My thoughts exactly😮
WTF! I switch tanks every 15 minutes and write down the time and tank. This helps to keep me engaged and the notes allow me to confirm if/when I last switched tanks.
I switch tanks every 2 hours.
Kudos to ATC for being able to decipher any of what the student was saying, I could hardly understand a word of it. That in itself is a safety problem. Student or not, emergency or not, communication is on the basic element needed list for any safe flight.
On December 2, 2019, a Piper PA28 Warrior, N558PU, was substantially damaged during a emergency landing in a field. The student pilot was not injured. The pilot departed VRB earlier in the day for a solo, cross-country flight. He took off from VRB with full fuel tanks and landed uneventfully at another airport. He intended to switch fuel tanks one hour into the flight, contrary to the flight school's policy of every 30 minutes. He forgot to switch tanks prior to landing at the other airport and did not switch tanks on the ground prior to departure. During the return flight to VRB, he again did not switch fuel tanks. While in the traffic pattern at VRB, the engine lost all power and quit. Unable to glide to runway 4, he performed a forced landing in a field to the south of the airport. During the landing roll, the airplane collided with a tree, separating the left wing from the airframe. Both wings and the fuselage were structurally damaged.
The left wing fuel tank was not breached and contained no fuel.
The right wing fuel tank was completely full of fuel. The cockpit fuel selector handle was found in the left tank position.The 22-year-old student pilot seemed stunned and without words.
He didn’t forget to change fuel. He refused to appropriately follow checklists and established safety procedures. And overestimated his ability, and underestimated how prepared he actually was to fly a plane.
That guy better drive cars, not airplanes..
In my X-Country flight, the company policy was to switch tanks every 15 minutes to prevent fuel imbalance and this situation..
@@CFITOMAHAWK2 he would be scary behind the wheel of a car as well!!
and THIS is the problem with the way the industry is with most flight schools pushing students to have soloed by their 5th lesson...
Not true.
In part 141, each FAA approved lesson must be completed successfully, or it must be repeated.
In part 91, it's 100% on the CFI to sign off...or not.
Don't know a CFI who would risk his ticket signing off a student, not ready to solo.
@@MarcPagan i'm not sure what your point is here. 1 completed lesson does not equal mastery or proficiency. i think you mean part 61 btw lol
@@Aeshr Thanks, typo. 61 it is sir :)
He was soloed with 1 lesson?!
If so,
that's a reason to close a flight school if 141,
and pull the ticket of the CFI who signed off, if part 61.
@@MarcPagannobody would solo after 1 lesson, that’s an absolutely absurd assumption.
@@RetreadPhoto Agree -- aeshr made the "1 hour" then solo comment, not me.
Cheers.
Gusts to 27 and that dude is signed off to solo? So much for wind limits
The my engine not to plenty good ! Trouble … 👿.
Engine no fail. Pilot fail. Almost always pilot fail.
He is a student pilot on solo. What do u except!
@@Flight_Follower Student pilots know how to change tanks before solo. Of course. Old CFI here.
I’m not being crude at all, but I literally could not understand a word this guy said. That in of itself is a huge safety issue.
His English is a bit rough. Come up to N Mn where there are a myriad of Chinese students flying. It will scare you.
Controllers, if someone’s single engine fails low level, don’t ask how much fuel they have. A pilot, especially a student pilot, will be using up all brain power. I know you’re programmed to ask, but there will be a fireball or there won’t for the fire department.
And just common sense. Engine failure = fuel time no matter anymore
One reason I never liked the make and models where I had yet another checklist item with fuel tanks. When I flew Pipers, I always made myself a personal checklist with a big fat "FUELTANKS!" on my knee. Just to make sure I had the gauges and the lever as part of my scan. That said, that student made aircraft recovery so easy! Nice shearing off wings, just put it all on the truck. Very considerate! 😆
JUst lucky. A guy who flies 2.5 hours and dont change tanks, and a heavy wing on right side telling him something like CHAIN FUL TAN NAO..
In my first three crashes I had weather problems. First was a 12 kt cross wind, next was just landing downwind by accident and hitting a light and the last was taxing into the grass with my left tire which ended up being deep mud. I thought it was okay but it bent the tire out a bit so it went flat before rotating.
Captain Crunch, is that you?
Hey that's an old Purdue University Piper. Had a few hours in those while there. That said, I agree with most of the comments they are pushing them through so damn quickly these days.... scary.
The Cherokee student pilot forgot to switch fuel tanks and made a successful engine out forced landing. He needs more training and confidence with checklists and planning but obviously was successfully trained in flying the airplane regardless of other problems. Better communications would not have helped him make a more successful forced landing. Over communicating could have hindered him making a successful forced landing, but that did not happen either. I was a crop duster and pipeline patrol pilot with three fuel starvations and one fuel exhaustion in thirteen engine failure forced landings in over fifty years and seventeen thousand hours. The kid did fine. We need more accidents that result in no fatalities. Pilots who are practically perfect in every way and have had no incidents or accidents scare me somehow. That could be just me.
I agree - it’s just you. 😂
Unintelligible communication just made his self induced error even worse 😮
I know its not their job, but am I the only person thinking if tower just said are the CFM engine failure checks complete? Then this airplane would still be safe and sound.
I know personally in an emergency particularly at low altitude I would not appreciate being saturated with pointless questions, when its already an intense experience trying to aviate after a lost engine, even though the pilot made the blunder with fuel, his communication was very good reporting engine failure, which he needlessly had to repeat, poor kid was saturated
If it's a "poor kid" as Pilot in Command of an aircraft, then that person should not be a pilot of any kind.
I dont know much about planes and just watch this out of curiosity... what was the situation with the student pilot? All I got was engine failure but there was something about switching fuel tanks?
The pilot departed VRB earlier in the day for a solo, cross-country flight. He took off from VRB with full fuel tanks and landed uneventfully at another airport. He intended to switch fuel tanks one hour into the flight, contrary to the flight school's policy of every 30 minutes. He forgot to switch tanks prior to landing at the other airport and did not switch tanks on the ground prior to departure. During the return flight to VRB, he again did not switch fuel tanks. While in the traffic pattern at VRB, the engine lost all power and quit. Unable to glide to runway 4, he performed a forced landing in a field to the south of the airport. During the landing roll, the airplane collided with a tree, separating the left wing from the airframe. Both wings and the fuselage were structurally damaged.
The left wing fuel tank was not breached and contained no fuel.
The right wing fuel tank was completely full of fuel. The cockpit fuel selector handle was found in the left tank position.The 22-year-old student pilot seemed stunned and without words.
@@Flight_Follower Thank you.
Can a pilot explain why the tower would ask "how many hours of fuel you have?" when the airplane is almost at the runway?
It's for the ARFF trucks, so they know an estimate of Foam/Water they may need for amount of fuel on board.
Fire
Fuel management? What’s fuel management….?
How do you not notice this?! The plane flies weird
Me fly sideways for some weason!?? Plane lean to much!! lol
😑 me no gas in tank
Me no money on my wallet 🙃
I really feel for the pilot,
but this is yet another example of the the need for the FAA to tighten its requirement to speak English.
Language has nothing to do with his, he's also a new pilot so his ATC communication skills are not going to be that good, also his engine is dead so he's gonna be under a lot of stress. FAA regulations on English is already sufficient, rarely does a non-native English speaker actually pose a serious risk, in fact there have no been any accidents in recent US history where language was the sole cause of an accident. I'm seeing these same unintelligent comments about language under every ATC video where the pilot has a strong accent, there's a difference between not being able to speak clear and concise English, and not being able to speak any sense at all.
@@kehreazerith3016 All good points
..but again, I've witnessed and heard too many poor English speakers in FL cause delays, incidents, and violations. Accidents? Unknown.
I've also witnessed what is essentially bribing a FAA designate for a foreign pilot transfer to FAA license...
when the pilot's English was clearly terrible.
Endangering me, my students, and the public.
But, the designee did leave a "Come to Jesus" card with the newly minted FAA "approved" pilot.
A dishonest hypocrite and asshole, in one package.
The designate, not the pilot :)
Being too stupid to change fuel tanks four times during a cross-country and follow checklists or read gauges is too stupid in any language.
@@RetreadPhoto Ah..
He's a student who made a mistake.
Granted, a critical one that could have gotten people killed.
Also, could be in part due to subpar instruction.
Ex -
I teach and require students who fly on aircraft that require switching tanks to have a clunky after market timer on the yoke, kneeboard, or velcroed to the panel...even if the aircraft has its own timer on the panel.
A fancy aviation watch doesn't cut it.
Curious what became of him.
.. if the FAA let him fly again, with re-training, and examinations, and only at a Part 141 school, due its more regimented structure vs 61.
@@kehreazerith3016language sure mattered. I had no clue what he was saying. The emergency had nothing to do with that