Saturday, October 15, 2022

Diamond DA62, N84LT: Incident occurred October 15, 2022 near Dallas Executive Airport (KRBD), Texas

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DALLAS, Texas - A plane landed on a Dallas roadway after experiencing engine problems Saturday afternoon.

Few details have been released at this time, but the aircraft landed on Kiest Boulevard, between Loop 12 and Spur 408 in Dallas.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, this happened at about 3 p.m., when a Diamond DA62 landed about two miles northwest of Dallas Executive Airport, which is where it was set to land. The plane left from Winston Field in Snyder, Texas.

Investigators said the pilot experienced engine problems, struck a power line and a speed limit sign, before landing on the roadway.

A Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesperson said there were two people on board, a husband and wife, and neither were injured.

No vehicles were damaged. Fire officials said there was no fire and the plane was not leaking fuel.

Dallas PD crews are blocking nearby traffic as crews continue their investigation and move the plane.









A small airplane made an emergency landing Saturday afternoon in the Mountain Creek area of southwestern Dallas, authorities say.

Just before 3 p.m., the plane’s pilot experienced engine problems, struck a power line and a road sign, then landed on the road, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. No vehicles were struck.

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said a husband and wife were in the plane when it landed. Authorities did not identify them or say who was the pilot.

No injuries were reported, Evans said.

He said that despite reports of the plane being on fire, there was no fire when Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and there was no fuel leaking from the aircraft.

The Diamond DA62 left Winston Field in Snyder — about 71 miles west of Abilene — and was headed to Dallas Executive Airport, but landed about two miles northwest of its destination, the FAA said.

Dallas police were helping block streets near the 5300 block of West Kiest Boulevard between Dan Morton Drive and Duncanville Road.

41 comments:

  1. This is going to be pretty interesting on the cause of this emergency landing. I wonder if this is a fuel starvation issue. Glad to see everyone is ok.

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    1. Good chance it was a mis-fuel as well.

      Overworked/or complacent line guy sees an aircraft with nacelles too small to be turboprop and tops it with Avgas…

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    2. This was exactly my first thought

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    3. If this works out this way, the primary fault would owned with a "complacent" pilot/operator.

      Fortunately no attorneys will be involved.

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    4. Doubtful since it took off, climbed, cruised on two engines just fine. Mis-fueling accidents usually happen on T/O due to detonation. Total flight time on that leg was 1:17.

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    5. Was certainly not a mis-fueling incident. Aircraft was serviced with Jet A. Aircraft owner was present for the servicing.

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    6. Repetitive flights to Snyder/return and Corpus Christi/return in ADS-B history didn't require full fills. Likely a fuel depletion/almost made it home event, not unusual if pilot was estimating but not verifying quantity remaining before embarking on another run of the familiar leg.

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    7. Ah, no. Your assumption does not hold water.

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    8. Why would they fill this with Jet-A? this is a piston engine right? so AV gas ?

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    9. This is a diesel powered aircraft, Austro engines, AE330. Therefore Jet fuel.

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  2. Lots of good stuff here, daylight situation so they could quickly find a suitable landing area , cool headed pilot gets aircraft on ground with no serious injuries , outstanding in my opinion

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  3. The props don't seem to be feathered. I'm glad it all worked out for them.

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    1. If the engine master was cycled, perhaps on the ground the props would go back to fine

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  4. First thought also is fuel starvation 2 miles short of destination " just barely didn't make it", engines always get blamed.

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    1. Yep they won't admit if true but a quick check of the tanks would show them empty. A real shame if so... this is going to be very expensive to fix in spite of the seemingly small amount of damages and a plane out of commission for at least a year given the so called "supply chain issues" all around.

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    2. I think this is one of the first incidents with a DA-62. It will be very interesting to see the outcome. Funny how both engines conked out? According to specs, the plane has excellent one engine performance.

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  5. So running out of gas is an engine problem and not a pilot problem ???

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    1. You'd be getting constant low fuel warnings from takeoff, that's not very easy to disregard.

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  6. Interesting that it comes at the same time Diamond/Austro is publishing an MSB (24 october) certainly followed by a AD, calling to replace the pistons on 50 to 80% of their engines.

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  7. They didn’t run out of gas … they had excessive air in the fuel system.

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  8. Some Bondo and glue and that'll buff right out. I surmise this was the fuel system "excessive air" as opined above. If so, very embarrassing and a LOT to 'splain to the wife!! But so very happy this ended well.

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  9. And, after all the armchair Monday Morning quarterbacking, you folks are still wrong. The bird departed KSNK with full tanks of JetA. The offending condition wasn't fuel related, and ya'll can read about it in the NTSB report. Have a good day! :)

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    1. Makes sense, Jet A price $4.84 @ SNK, $5.85 @ RBD.

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    2. So you're either the owner or the line boy. Why not just tell us what happened then?

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  10. ^^LOL well someone had to say it! But seriously, this is a new aircraft relatively speaking (FAA registration dated 11/19/2020). The chances of a mechanical failure of a new aircraft just 23 months old on not one but even BOTH engines is so minuscule to the point of being non-existent. So naturally everyone is going to point fingers at some fuel related issue (and excessive air in the lines is still a fuel problem technically IF that winds up being the cause here).

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    1. The excessive air in line quip, was an attempted joke. He/she was making a reference to fuel starvation.

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  11. “Geneva Tower, I have to go back”
    reference an Austro diesel engine issues. https://airfactsjournal.com/2022/10/geneva-tower-i-have-to-go-back/

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  12. Knowing the guys there in Snyder personally, I'd be shocked if it turned out to be a misfueling.

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  13. Interesting, the Diamond web site describes the Austro A330 engine as a 2.0 liter turbocharged "Jet Fuel" (piston) engine using JP4 or equivalent, like a Diesel engine. Did I misread something?

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    1. It is a Diesel engine running on Jet-A1, what ist unclear?

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    2. Nothing at this point after reading on a bit. I was unfamiliar with this engine type. I suppose the only drawback is water cooling and the external radiator to make it happen. Impressive, 2L engine developing 180 HP.

      The only major problem I see is WanFeng (CCP) took over Diamond Aircraft Group in 2017. Good luck getting parts after we go to hot war with CCP.

      I and many others are having problems getting common Timken wheel bearings in a complete set. An outer race here, an inner bearing there, and common oil based part wash just went out of availability for a water based soap that costs 4x as much.

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  14. how does one get excessive air in the fuel line?

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    1. The earlier "excessive air" comments appear to have been tongue in cheek euphemism for empty tanks.

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  15. Please everyone, a moment of silence for the poor innocent road signs that this pilot took out.

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  16. A big letdown to end up on the street with a bashed wing and brown trousers like this one did if it's true that the flight began with adequate Jet-A quantity on board.

    The enduring legacy of the Sky King tv show is the mistaken general assumption that two engines on a light twin makes up for one going out.

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  17. The good news is it's only going to take a new wing, instead of a tear down/rebuild of two engines.

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  18. NTSB prelim out. Total electrical failure and to top it off the ECU backup batteries were not installed correctly and couldn't keep the engines running. Someone has some explaining to do.

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  19. Well, I bet that news is a relief to the "Overworked/Complacent line boy"!

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  20. Diamond DA42 dual engine failure
    https://www.aviationconsumer.com/industry-news/fate-1-fadec-0/

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  21. Complete electrical failure causing duel engine failure

    https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106135/pdf

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