In a previous article, said:
Can you tell us what happened?

A Piper Navajo has a very complex fuel system, and you're not supposed to
take off or land on the outer tanks, nor are you supposed to use them in
maneuvering flight if they're less than half full. His plane was at a
nearby airport for service on one of the engines. The mechanic who worked
on the plane noted that the fuel selector on the plane was set to the
outer tanks, and the fuel gauges were reading empty.

After the service, both the mechanic and the line guy offered to call the
fuel truck, but the pilot said he was in a hurry because he wanted to get
out on his boat.

On the flight back to his home base, he reported that an engine had failed
(the one that had just been worked on) and he was returning to the airport
he'd just departed. A few minutes later he reported that the other engine
had failed as well, and he was going to try to land at a near-by airport,
then he reported he wasn't going to make that airport and he was going to
try for a field.

The plane crashed, he died, and one side burned. The other side had
nearly full inner and middle tanks. The fuel selectors in the plane were
still set to the outer tanks.

As far as anybody can speculate, he must have thought the first engine
failure was due to problems with the new engine, not a fuel problem, but
nobody can explain why he didn't switch tanks when the second one failed.


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