14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, June 01, 2014 in Longmont, CO
Probable Cause Approval Date: 10/27/2014
Aircraft: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC DA20-C1, registration: N206ND
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The pilot reported that the engine lost all power after the airplane took off and climbed to about 400 feet. He then made a forced landing to a field adjacent to the airport. The airplane struck the ground nose first and skidded about 150 feet before coming to a stop; the nose gear was sheared off. During a postaccident examination of the airplane, only a few drops of fuel were recovered from the wing and gascolator fuel drains; no fuel could be seen in either tank. The pilot noted that fuel had been leaking from the tanks for three days before the examination. However, even if minimal fuel had been present during the accident flight, more than a few drops should have drained out of the gascolator drain. Had the pilot done a thorough preflight inspection, he should have noted the lack of fuel in the tanks.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection.
On June 1, 2014, about 0915 mountain daylight time, a Diamond DA 20-C1, N206ND, collided with terrain after the engine lost power near Longmont, Colorado. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant on board, was not injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan had been filed. The local flight was originating when the accident occurred.
In a telephone interview, the pilot said the airplane had just come out of an annual inspection and his mechanic had performed a post-maintenance engine functional test up to full power. All systems operated normally and the engine performed well. The accident flight was a test flight after the annual inspection. The pilot said prior to takeoff, he also ran the engine up to full power. No anomalies were noted. The pilot took off and after climbing to about 400 feet, the engine lost power. The pilot made a forced landing in a field adjacent to the airport. The airplane struck the ground nose first, shearing off the nose gear, and skidded about 150 feet before coming to a stop. The empennage was separated from the fuselage.
On June 4, three Federal Aviation Administration inspectors examined the airplane in the presence of the pilot. According to the lead inspector, the airplane was equipped with two fuel drains --- one for the fuel tank and one for the gascolator. Only a few drops of fuel were recovered from each drain. No fuel could be seen in the fuel tank. The pilot said fuel had been leaking from the fuel tank for three days before the FAA inspectors arrived. According to the FAA inspector's report, if there had been minimal fuel aboard the airplane, fuel greater than a few drops would have drained out of the gascolator drain during the examination.
NTSB Identification: CEN14LA267
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, June 01, 2014 in Longmont, CO
Aircraft: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC DA 20-C1, registration: N206ND
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On June 1, 2014, about 0915 mountain daylight time, a Diamond DA 20-C1, N206ND, collided with terrain after the engine lost power near Longmont, Colorado. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant on board, was not injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan had been filed. The local flight was originating when the accident occurred.
The pilot said he took off and after climbing to about 400 feet, the engine lost all power. He made a forced landing in a field adjacent to the airport. The airplane struck the ground nose first, sheared off the nose gear, and skidded about 150 feet before coming to a stop. The empennage separated from the fuselage.
KOSAIR INC., N206ND: http://registry.faa.gov/N206ND
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - The Boulder County Sheriff's Office says a pilot escaped injury when he lost power of his small airplane and crashed in a field near the Vance Brand Airport .
Cmdr. Heidi Prentup says 74-year-old Harold Kosmerl of Longmont crashed during takeoff at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday. His single-engine airplane, a 1998 Katana Diamond, was heavily damaged when it crashed 300-400 yards from the runway.
Kosmerl was the only one on board at the time.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.
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Plane crashes shortly after takeoff at Longmont's Vance Brand, pilot not injured
A Diamond Katana airplane was forced to land in a field near Longmont's Vance Brand Airport this morning because of engine trouble shortly after takeoff, according to airport Manager Tim Barth.
Barth said the Longmont pilot's training kicked in when he realized he didn't have enough altitude to get back to the airport, prompting him to land in the field at about 10 a.m. The plane's tail snapped off and the plane lost a couple of other parts, but the pilot wasn't injured and was able to walk away, he said.
"You can't ask for a better outcome in an incident like this," Barth said.
Barth declined to release the pilot's name.
He said the Federal Aviation Administration plans to investigate today, while the Boulder County Sheriff's Office and the Hygiene Fire Department both responded this morning.
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