Piper PA-31-310 Navajo crash, Aug 14, 2016 (6 killed), Tu...
Piper PA-31-310 Navajo accident on August 14, 2016 near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States with 6 fatalities. Cause: NTSB: Total loss of power in both...
- Date: August 14, 2016
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 Navajo
- Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
- Fatalities: 6
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: NTSB: Total loss of power in both engines due to fuel starvation as a result of the pilot's fuel mismanagement and his failure to follow the emergency checklist, with his lack of emergency procedures training in the accident airplane as a contributor.
A Piper PA 31 325 Navajo C/R operated by Oxford University Aircraft Charters on an IFR flight from Kissimmee Gateway, Florida to Oxford, Mississippi, carried one pilot and five passengers. About 1 hour 45 minutes after reaching cruise altitude both engines lost power, and the airplane descended into trees about 1,650 feet short of the runway at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, followed by a post impact fire. All six occupants were killed and the airplane was destroyed; the NTSB found the pilot failed to switch fuel selectors to the inboard tanks.