the pilot was conducting an IFR flight
in a twin engine Beechcraft Baron with
five passengers on board during a GPS
approach into the destination airport
both engines lost total power within 10
seconds of each other
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m0a online Ground School members Jason
here welcome into the fourth and final
part of our series probably not the
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all been loving this year of 2-3 Mike
Zulu just finding fun ways to continue
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given so much back to us now I I open
every one of these in this series the
same way but it still rings so true
I don't like talking about accents
um why do we though well two things I
believe we would do the pilots and there
are fatalities in this accident here
today I believe we do them a disservice
if we just brushed under the rug made a
statistic and move on I think the right
thing to do is put ourselves in their
shoes and learn everything we can from
those Pilots I think that's truly the
most beneficial thing that we can do to
try to extract some good from all of us
here and that's what we're really going
to do here today what can we learn from
this I've been loving by the way reading
your comments so please stay engaged in
the comments section down below it
really means the absolute world to us so
as we opened up we're flying a
Beechcraft Baron we're on the GPS
Approach at our destination and then
both engines quit within 10 seconds of
each other
well the NTSB report continues the left
engine regained near full power about 40
seconds later which it maintained until
the end of the recorded data as the
pilot continued the approach he didn't
ensure the flaps were up or feather the
propeller of the inoperative right
engine which is contrary to the
airplane's manufacturers other emergency
procedures right you lose an engine
especially in a multi-engine airplane
you need to clean up and feather that
airplane quickly by all the engine
Pilots know that so as the airplane's
descending with the right engine
inoperative we're getting now below the
cloud ceilings which are at 500 feet AGL
its flight path actually levels out but
the airspeed decreases below the minimum
controllable air speed for single engine
operations we know that is vmc so the
airplane continued flight below this vmc
speed with an unfeathered propeller of
that inoperative right engine the left
engine at near full power and the
airplanes aft center of gravity well
what happens in that case it resulted in
the right wing turning right you've got
all that thrust on the left wing a dead
right engine you've got a bad center of
gravity and that good engine will
actually twist you up and over into a
spin and all the way into ground impact
what happened here
now obviously this equates to a loss of
control because of an inoperative engine
and multi-agent Pilots you know this I
always jokingly say your multi-engine
training is all done on one engine the
majority of your 10 15 hours you're
going to get earning a multi-engine
add-on is going to be done on one engine
because accents just like this
but what caused the engine failure
oftentimes we just look at this and go
oh it's a vmc role and we we add it to
the stats
however yes a vmc role ultimately caused
the accident
but what caused the engine failure
you see the pilots filed Flight Plan
indicated a minimum fuel load required
of 58 gallons although this didn't
account for the instrument approach and
flying to alternate airports
but the Pilot's flight planning log
which was retrieved only had 50 or 54
gallons of fuel on board is what the
pilot said in his fuel log before this
flight thus based solely on the Pilot's
logs these were you know filed in the
flight plan there was insufficient fuel
on board to even embark on the flight
now I believe this is because the
airplane right was heavily loaded a
pilot plus five passengers this is a
Beechcraft Baron a six-passenger
aircraft and and that means this
airplane was full so the airplane was
beyond its maximum gross weight even
with just 50 gallons of fuel on board
it's likely the pilot said I'm already
overweight I don't want to add any more
weight and and left without the
necessary fuel so the decision to depart
the accent flight without it with the
without the adequate fuel on board the
NTSB said their words not mine showed
poor judgment by the way this is an
airline transport pilot an ATP with 5600
total hours
2400 hours in a Beechcraft Baron so just
something to really keep in mind and
again Beechcraft Baron five passengers
and a pilot you're over max weight now
it's interesting at the home airport
they had surveillance camera footage
eight days ago they saw the pilot where
he thought he was topped off and they
have the phone records too but they
never actually made it out there to top
him off fuel wise so when he put in his
manual input was actually wrong so he
was just trusting his fuel gauges who
knows what I mean why say you cannot
trust fuel gauges you've got to visually
check the tanks he trusted his gauges
and his engine monitoring but he
misprogrammed the engine monitoring
based on fuel that really wasn't there
the day of the accident the surveillance
cameras noted and showed he went out
pre-flighted checked the left-wing fuel
peaked in the cap but never summed and
never looked at the right wing tank
which would have given him all the
indications that he didn't have the fuel
that he needed you see this is why now
in addition to we don't rush a
pre-flight we treat everything and I
just want to share an interesting story
um I was at uh at a flight school many
many months ago and uh was just sitting
there and some some kids came over to
say hi and talk while while this
gentleman was waiting for a slight
lesson and the airplane came back in and
I said uh all right your looks like your
airplane's back uh have a safe flight
you probably need to get started
pre-flight I'll let you go pre-flight I
won't distract you because we were just
talking for 15 minutes while I was
waiting for the plane to come back in
and he said these words he said oh it
just came back in I don't need a
pre-flight
and
sometimes as a as an aviator you have a
spirit of boldness I call it and use
that Spirit of boldness and I just
politely said you know what
I I understand what you're saying
however you don't know if that person
before you just had a real bad landing
and flat spotted attire or bent some
metal or whatever it is I would treat it
like that airplane hasn't been flying I
know it's tough to check oil and that
sort of stuff but you don't know what
just happened during that last flight
lesson there never assume because the
airplane got there it's going to get to
where it's going next so a little little
off topic there as well but you got to
slow down and pre-flight these airplanes
this is why last month we also talked so
much about the three hour rule in our
flight plan series
meaning if you haven't watched that
video three hour rule and perhaps we can
link to it down below as well
in the three hour rule from the moment I
say clear prop and start that airplane I
start a timer
from the moment the line Personnel
brings me in and says shut down that
time better not exceed three hours so
realistically I'm planning two and a
half hour legs
it's for fuel it's also for the bladder
and food and water and everything else
with it
another big part of this accident and a
three-hour rule would have saved many
lives there a better pre-flight would
have saved many lives so would of
knowing our procedures like Feathering
the prop
I know that sounds small but this still
was a vmc role that that ultimately
caused the accent here many links in the
chain though
um it sounds small but it would have
decreased the drag and thus improved
thrust he was created on the remaining
engine here and I know that remaining
ninja was just running on fumes so
you've got some weight issues when
you've got one Wing a little heavier
than the other at fcg all of these
things you've got to know your
procedures so what do we learn from this
you got a pre-flight you got a
pre-flight like not like the airplane
just came in like you've never seen this
airplane before you've got to adopt an
hour rule maybe the three hour rule or
something for you on these long cross
countries my goal is to be landing with
about an hour and a half of fuel on
board not about an hour and a half I
want you to have an hour and a half of
fuel on board so what is that for you in
your airplane and the lastly you've got
to know your procedures you've got to
know the power of Feathering that prop
or no what is available to you in those
emergency scenarios
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