| John Fiala, 2006-12-18 05:00:00 |
| | N66PF was transfered from Edward Strong to one Mesfin Marcos on 18-May-1993. Aircraft was relocated to South Africa and used for ferry/Diplomatic work. In November of 1993 the fuel tanks were topped off with Jet-A contrary to complyance to FAA AD installation of reducers into the fuel tank inlet to prevent the induction of Jet A into the fuel tanks. The aircraft subsequently lost altitude while inroute and collided with building in a village in South Africa. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Owner was flying. All passengers lived, however that pilot was hospitalized for 11 weeks due to injuries and a coma. Pilot was later able to return to work as a pilot. Aircraft was scrapped. |
| Mesfin Marcos, 2007-10-08 04:00:00 |
| | I was the owner and pilot of this aircraft during the forced landing mentioned above. There are a few corrections I would like to make to the comment by John Fiala. Teh aircraft was flown to East Africa in May 1993. That is where I had to execute a forced landing due to an engine failure in my left engine. The casue of the failure has never been determined as far as I know. I would really like to find out how, when, and by whom it was determined to be incorrect fuel type. The aircraft crashed in a remote area in East Africa. There was no recovery effort of the wreckage attempted. Please update me with any information you may have about the casue of the engine failure. Thank you. |
