Cessna P210 N4842K

Summary

On 26 August 2018 at about 20:34 local time, a Cessna P210 registered N4842K, operated by Juliet Echo Aviation Llc, was involved in an accident near Delaware, Ohio, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

26 August 2018 at 20:34

Classification

Accident

Location

Delaware, Ohio, United States

Coordinates

40.3000, -83.0000

Aircraft

Cessna P210

Registration

N4842K

Category

Airplane

Year built

1979

Engines

1

Operator

Juliet Echo Aviation Llc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

New Philadelphia → Urbana

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN18LA351

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's inadequate fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s distraction of the formation flight. 

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot departed the airport to rejoin and fly in formation with a vintage airplane. After the airplane rejoined the formation, the engine lost total power; the pilot made a forced landing, during which the airplane nosed over and sustained damage to the vertical stabilizer. Postaccident examination of the airframe and engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal flight operations. Downloaded engine data revealed a rapid drop of fuel flow and decrease in engine rpm that were consistent with fuel starvation. The pilot attributed the power loss to "running the right tank out of fuel" after not switching the fuel selector from right to left fuel tank, as he had initially planned, during the flight. The pilot stated the high engine power setting he used to rejoin with the vintage airplane was a fuel planning consideration for which he had not accounted and that his preflight and in-flight fuel planning routines were rushed because of his desire to rejoin the formation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.