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N62029 accident description

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Crash location 61.578889°N, 159.215556°W
Reported location is a long distance from the NTSB's reported nearest city. This often means that the location has a typo, or is incorrect.
Nearest city Aniak, AK
61.578333°N, 159.522222°W
10.1 miles away
Tail number N62029
Accident date 07 Oct 2007
Aircraft type Maule M-5-220C
Additional details: None

NTSB Factual Report

On October 7, 2007, about 2047 Alaska daylight time, a Maule M-5-220C airplane, N62029, sustained substantial damage during an off-airport emergency landing, about 10 miles east of the Aniak Airport, Aniak, Alaska. The airplane was being operated by the pilot as a visual flight rules (VFR) local night currency flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The commercial certificated pilot and pilot-rated passenger were not injured. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed Aniak about 2015.

During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on October 8, the pilot stated he departed the Aniak Airport, and flew 10 miles east to the Chuathbaluk airstrip for night currency training. He said he was doing touch and go landings at Chuathbaluk, and while flying on the downwind leg, the airplane's engine quit. The pilot reported he was unable to reach the runway, and that the airplane landed in trees on the tundra. He said the airplane was fueled prior to the departure, and that he switched fuel tanks after the engine quit. The pilot said the airplane sustained damage to the wings and fuselage when it collided with trees.

In a written statement to the NTSB dated October 15, the pilot wrote that a more thorough preflight of the fuel tanks to verify which tank the engine was operating on may have prevented the accident.

The airplane was not examined by the NTSB.

NTSB Probable Cause

The pilot's improper fuel tank selection and fuel starvation, while doing touch-and-go landings.

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