Piper PA28 accident near Summersville, MO
On March 6, 2019, a Piper PA28 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Summersville, MO. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- March 6, 2019
- Place
- Summersville, MO
- Aircraft
- Piper PA28 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 37.196°N, 91.703°W
- NTSB ID
- 20190306X00748
Official records · CEN19FA093
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn March 5, 2019, about 2204 central standard time, a Piper PA 28-180 airplane, N7369W, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Summersville, Missouri. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the owner of the airplane and a family member of the pilot, the pilot traveled to Virginia on commercial airline flights the morning of the accident to pick up the airplane for the owner and return to Missouri. The pilot departed New River Valley Airport (PSK), Dublin, Virginia, at an unknown time and was en route to Downtown Airport (3DW), Springfield, Missouri. Investigators established that the pilot stopped at London (Corbin) Magee Airport (LOZ), London, Kentucky, for fuel about 1731 and departed about 1801. The pilot did not receive, nor was he required to receive, air traffic control services. The accident airplane squawked a nondiscreet beacon code of 1200, and positive radar identification could not be made. However, radar data depicted a flight track consistent with the airplane’s reported departure time from LOZ. According to the radar data, the airplane was westbound at an altitude of 5,000 ft mean sea level. Just before the radar data ended, the altitude started to decrease, and the airplane turned towards the north followed by about a 180° course reversal toward the southeast. The wreckage was located the next morning by the driver of a vehicle on a nearby road. The flight track ended about 2204, about 1.8 nautical miles northwest of
Probable cause
The total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight fuel planning and in-flight fuel monitoring.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
