203 Misfueling Accidents: What You Need to Know to Avoid Them + GA News
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🗓️ 28 September 2021
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203 Misfueling Accidents: What You Need to Know to Avoid Them + GA News
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203 Max talks about the different ways your aircraft can get misfueled, and the steps you should take every time you get fuel, to ensure you don't get misfueled. A Baron 58P that recently crashed at Palo Alto airport, appears to have been misfueled. Sumping the fuel doesn't guarantee you'll catch a misfuelling. Also a 50/50 mix of 100LL and Jet looks the same as 100LL.
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| 0:00.0 | Declared emergency, we've got to have lots of power of both engines, one of the |
| 0:06.6 | fuel. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm baron, two, delta, soft, is your number one, runway three one, click, a lander, G1-13. |
| 0:13.8 | Okay, sitel land three one. |
| 0:15.3 | That's audio from a baron, which had a rare dual engine failure at my home airport |
| 0:19.7 | earlier this month. The pilot crashed short of the runway but survived, and we'll talk more about that accident |
| 0:24.5 | during our main topic. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk general aviation, with relevant |
| 0:30.4 | news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Max Ruscott. |
| 0:35.3 | Today we'll be talking about a recent accident that was most likely caused |
| 0:38.5 | by misfueling, and we'll talk about that many different ways that your aircraft could get |
| 0:42.8 | misfueled. We'll also talk about the steps that you should take every time you get fuel |
| 0:47.2 | to make sure that you don't get misfueled. In our last episode, 202, we talked about my neighbor |
| 0:53.5 | Clancy Prevo, the 9-11 hero who spoke up about Zacharias Musawi, the 20th 9-11 hijacker, because something didn't quite seem right. |
| 1:02.4 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you should check it out. |
| 1:05.1 | This week in the news, a private pilot aids a police pursuit. |
| 1:09.3 | And Zooming kills yet another pilot. And a pilot who you |
| 1:13.4 | might have thought should know better violated a TFR in New York. All this and more, and the |
| 1:19.0 | news starts now. From KUTv.com, that's a TV station out of Salt Lake City. Private pilot helps St. George |
| 1:29.7 | Police with pursuit. Now, St. George is in southern Utah. It says a private airplane pilot |
| 1:34.9 | who happened to be flying above a vehicle pursuit called dispatchers after seeing an officer |
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