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If they are so easy to avoid, it kind of makes you wonder why the keep happening?

Chuck Jensen

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Scott Seagrave

I attended an FAA session at Osh Kosh entitled "Surviving Forced Landings." According to their statistics, 43% of all forced landings were due to either fuel exhaustion or fuel starvation (using the exact terms Bill described). Another 6% were due to carb ice. So in total, nearly half (49%) of all forced landings should be fairly easy to avoid.

Scott Seagrave

L-IVP N721MS (reserved)

Bill & Sue <5zq@cox.net> wrote:

Actually Tom, fuel starvation ONLY covers those instances where there is
fuel on board. If there's no fuel left it's fuel EXHAUSTION.

Bill Harrelson
N5ZQ 320 1,400 hrs
N6ZQ IV under construction

> By the way, "fuel starvation" is not necessarily the same thing as
> running out of fuel. Fuel starvation also covers those instances where
> there is fuel on board but for some reason it's not getting to the engine.
>
> Tom Gourley

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