The misfueling I can understand happening. But the pilot’s decision to conduct the flight even though he knew it? Unbelievable.
The pilot told investigators he did not specifically request 100LL. He also said he read the fuel receipt after fueling and saw that Jet-A had been supplied, but the group was in a hurry to get home. They departed without inspecting or sampling the fuel.
That’s… wow.
That’s a 21 Air level of dumbery.
Actually I think the report contained a typo and the article picked up on that. In the IIC report the pilot stated that he didn’t look at the receipt.
OK, that changes things then
@jgillmanjr it’s still dumb though. The report that mentioned he didn’t look at the fuel receipt had a definite typo in it, so it could have had another as it clearly hadn’t been carefully checked. The NTSB are usually careful in the way they word reports. If the pilot was aware he had the wrong fuel put in and still chose to take off, it’s almost unbelievable if you assume he knew the consequences. Not only would he not get very far, but the damage to his plane and the job of putting it right would be far greater once the fuel had run through the system.
The NTSB cited the fueler as the probable cause. I would have expected the pilot to have been a bigger cause if he knew the wrong fuel had been added and still took off.
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