Last year, a burning plane crash in Tennessee who killed a Canadian family of five was the result of an error of the father who was driving the plane, according to a national report of the Transport Security Board published this week.
A one -year investigation of the accident of March 4, 2024 found no mechanical problems with the plane, although the fuel selector was between the “out” position and the position of the left main tank.
“This configuration would die of fuel engine and was probably the result that the pilot changed the fuel selector handle in preparation to land,” according to the report.
The single Pi-32RT engine plane crashed into the limits of the city of Nashville along with interstate motorists, scary of motorists. It exploded in flames in the grass right next to the road and behind a Costco on the west side of the city, about 4.8 kilometers south of the John C Tune airport in Nashville.
Victor Dutsenko, 43, was the pilot. The passengers were his wife, Rimma, 39, and his three children, David, 12, Adam, 10 years, and Emma, 7. The family was King Township, Ontario, about 50 kilometers north of Toronto.
Dtsenkos described as a “wonderful family”
A neighbor of the Dotsenkos described them as “a wonderful family,” according to a report by Canadian Press in March 2024.
Alina Pinsky, co -director of the UMCA Rich Tree Academy, a private school north of Toronto, said the family was part of the school community for many years.
David, Adam and Emma were “the sweetest children you have ever met,” Pinksky said in a telephone interview.
“These were the brightest children and full of energy: everyone loved them, they had so many friends,” Pinsky said. “This was a very, very dear trio in our school.”
Victor Dutsenko was a member of the Brampton Flying Club, said the general manager of the club, Allan Paige. He did his training in the club and obtained his private pilot license in November 2022. He continued flying with the club until he bought his plane in the middle of last year, Paige said.
His flight originated in Ontario and made stops in Pennsylvania and Kentucky to replace before trying to land at the general aviation airport around 7:40 PM Dutsenko had contacted air traffic controllers and was aligned with the track, but for unknown reasons he could not descend to land. He requested to surround and approach the track again.
When a controller asked Dutsenko if he still had the airport in sight, he said his engine had closed. The controller asked again if he was trying to land.
“I’m going to land, I don’t know where,” Dutsenko said.
A controller told him that they were cleaning a track and urged to try to slide.
But Dotsenko said in his last transmission: “I’m too far. I’m not going to do it.”
An analysis of residential audio and video recordings “revealed that the engine was running with almost complete continuous power of approximately 2,650 rpm before the engine sound became abnormal, and the audio contained several ‘bursts’ noises before the engine noise sound finished,” according to the report.
Many witnesses called 911, some of them are still in a state of shock and disbelief at what they had seen, according to the audio of the calls obtained through a request for public records.
