Plane Crash List

Piper PA-23-250 N5300Y

10 February 1986 · San Francisco, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 10 February 1986 at about 01:17 local time, a Piper PA-23-250 registered N5300Y, operated by Flight Contract Services, was involved in an accident near San Francisco, California, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 01:17
Classification
Accident
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Nearest airport
Oakland Intl (OAK)
Coordinates
Not recorded
Aircraft
Piper PA-23-250
Registration
N5300Y
Category
Airplane
Engines
2
Operator
Flight Contract Services
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Ferry
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Honolulu → Oakland
Aircraft damage
Destroyed
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
LAX86LA110

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
2 0 0 0 2

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ON FEB 9, 1986 AT 1717 PST A PIPER PA-23, N5300Y, DITCHED APPROXIMATELY 460 NM SW OF SFO, CA. THE FLT ORIGINATED FROM HNL, HI. IN FLT FUEL LEAK WAS DISCOVERED AFTER 7 HRS OF FLIGHT. FUEL VAPORS WERE SEEN CONTRAILING OFF BOTH WINGS. THE PLT ATTEMPTED TO ISOLATE THE LEAK AND WAS UNABLE. THE CROSSFEED SELECTOR AND ACFT FUEL SELECTOR BECAME DIFFICULT TO MOVE. THE SOURCE OF THE FUEL LEAK WAS LOCATED EITHER IN THE WING OR IN THE CROSSFEED SYSTEM. THE ACFT DITCHED AFTER 9 HRS 45 MIN OF FLT DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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