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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
We had a pilot locally that crashed his plane in downtown Spokane a few years ago. He was killed and the reason was that his piston engine plane was filled with avgas. I haven't heard what the lawsuit his family filed came up with but I'm sure it was substantial.

Jim

I think you mean his piston engine airplane was filled with jet fuel. Piston aircraft engines run on avgas. There used to be 80 octane (red) and 100LL (blue), but it is all 100LL in the US now, at least until they figure out unleaded avgas.

This is one reason why pilots are taught to be present and supervise the fueling of their airplanes.

We had a Piper set down on the highway here in the 1990s at night, carrying financial records.

Hit a van too.

https://www.apnews.com/23fb3df...27a3715b40625193983c


https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenera...ype=Summary&IType=FA

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Originally posted by slosig:

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
We had a pilot locally that crashed his plane in downtown Spokane a few years ago. He was killed and the reason was that his piston engine plane was filled with avgas. I haven't heard what the lawsuit his family filed came up with but I'm sure it was substantial.

Jim

I think you mean his piston engine airplane was filled with jet fuel. Piston aircraft engines run on avgas. There used to be 80 octane (red) and 100LL (blue), but it is all 100LL in the US now, at least until they figure out unleaded avgas.

This is one reason why pilots are taught to be present and supervise the fueling of their airplanes.

Yep, that is what happened. My oopsy. I'm not an aviator and wasn't familiar with the nomenclature.

Jim

We had a DC-9 crash on one of my family's developments when they put jet fuel in it. I need to find the photos I took of it. The office was in the roped off area and they let us through. I went outside and stood on one of the trailers to take some photos. One of the guys working the accident saw me (I was 8 years old at the time), came over, and asked if I wanted to get a closer look. He walked me right up to it.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
We had a DC-9 crash on one of my family's developments when they put jet fuel in it. ...

The DC-9 uses turbofan (jet) engines. Did you mean they put AVGAS in it?

I've laded on a public road due to wx, and landed at an airport when the carb swallowed the venturi and emulsion tube. The airport landing (sans power) was much more demanding.

Also took off 45 mins later on the same road after seeing a sole semi drive by. A T-6 on the shoulder didn't phase the trucker

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The DC-9 uses turbofan (jet) engines. Did you mean they put AVGAS in it?

I had the wrong plane. It was a DC-3, not a DC-9

https://aviation-safety.net/da...rd.php?id=19840109-0

This was the local newspaper article on it:

https://www.newspapers.com/cli...rashes_near_lambert/

I noted that the car where the video was taken had a cracked windshield.

flashguy