Peter wrote:
Floating body found by ship at Barrel-Oilfield seven days later.
That refers to a much older accident:
I don’t think he had a destination, at least not one with a runway. It really looks like pilot incapacitation and the airplane kept going on autopilot or suicide.
ASN updated: Floating body found by ship at Barrel-Oilfield seven days later.
Other comments:
The available flight history for the aircraft on Flightaware shows that it was used almost exclusively for local flights in the Hamburg area, so a flight across the North Sea was very much out of the ordinary.
I wonder what his destination was considering he was 6 hours into that flight and Sumburgh closes at 1615 on a Saturday?
Thomas_R wrote:
Maybe if you fly a 172 from 1959, which was not the case here…
I’ve extensively flown 172s from a number of years, including one from 2006. But if you want to start a discussion why there – in your opinion – is no reason to use fuel selector settings other than BOTH, please start a new thread.
Airborne_Again wrote:
There are absolutely valid reasons to not leave it on BOTH during normal operations, but that’s a different discussion.
Maybe if you fly a 172 from 1959, which was not the case here…
Thomas_R wrote:
And there is absolutely no reason not to leave it on BOTH during normal operations.
There are absolutely valid reasons to not leave it on BOTH during normal operations, but that’s a different discussion.
Airborne_Again wrote:
The Cessna 172 has a “BOTH” tank selector position. It is the required setting for takeoff and many pilots leave it there for the whole flight.
And there is absolutely no reason not to leave it on BOTH during normal operations. The German BFU will probably conduct an accident investigation. There’ll also be a preliminary (summary) report in a couple of months.
Peter wrote:
The endurance also assumes the pilot switching tanks; this is not a TBM.
The Cessna 172 has a “BOTH” tank selector position. It is the required setting for takeoff and many pilots leave it there for the whole flight.
Indeed, but the track appears to be for a flight with an impossible range for the type.
As posted earlier, ATC etc will have all the details but nobody will be talking…
So could also have been a heart attack or alike.
