Priery Small plane crash in Nashville This killed an Ontario family last year was probably caused by a pilot error, said National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The American government agency published its final report this month Mortal on March 4, 2024, crash It killed Victor Dotenko, 43, his wife Rimma, 39, and their children: David, 12, Adam, 10 and Emma, seven years old.
King Township’s family left the province on a single-engine plane in Piper Pa-32rt and stopped in Pennsylvania and Kentucky to refuel before trying to land at John C. Nashville Tune around 7:40 p.m.
However, the plane crashed within the limits of the city of Nashville alongside Interstate 40, frightening of passenger motorists. He broke out on fire in the grass right next to the highway and behind a Costco on the west side of the city, about 4.8 kilometers south of the airport.
The NTSB declared in its final report that it had not found any mechanical problem with the plane, but the fuel selector was between the “deactivated” position and the position of the main left tank.
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He said the adjustment would set off the fuel engine and “was probably the result” of the driver – Victor – changing the handle of the fuel selector in preparation for landing.
“It is likely that the pilot moved the fuel selector at some point during the surflux and the approach, but failed to completely accommodate the selector in a position, which led to a limited fuel flow which was lower than that necessary to maintain the power of the engine,” said the agency.
“After loss of power of the engine, the remaining altitude was insufficient to provide a sliding distance to the track.”
‘I’m not going to get there’
During the flight, Victor had contacted the air controllers and was aligned with the track, but for unknown reasons, he did not go down to land. He asked to go around and approach the track again.
When a controller asked Victor if he still had the airport in sight, he said that his engine had stopped. The controller asked again if he tried to land.
“I’m going to land, I don’t know where,” said Victor.
A controller told him that he was cleaning a track and urged him to try to slip.
But Victor said in its last transmission: “I am too far away. I’m not going to get there.
Victor had a hangar at the Brampton Flying Club, which operates a small airport and a flight school in the Grand Toronto region.
Tony Starcevic, member of the club, told Global News at the time This winner was a kind and intelligent man.
“It affected us all on the ground here,” he said.
“We never want to lose someone. … It’s a terrible tragedy.”
Rimma was an employee of Regal Crest Homes in Vaughan, Ontario.
The director general of the company told Global News that she was a wonderful person and an employee, and they were very sad to learn her death. They added that the children had gone to the office several times.
– with files Sean Previl,, Sean O’Shea and the Associated Press
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