Sure doesn't seem right.....
His story stinks... you would not do that unless you had run out of gas... bet its a older skymaster and it has the dual tanks... and he flat ran out of gas.... may be why he was trying to land at Big Bear... He is not giving enough info ... to make even a hint of what went wrong... but, with the fire at the end... it says he had fuel somewhere... I wonder how many hours he had in the airframe.... wonder if the company aero haven... might have more info on the pilot...
Either that or he had the mixtures pulled back for cruse and when he retarted the throttles he starved the engines for fuel... I have heard of that happening before... but, never to the point of failure... of course most pilots then push them all the way up.. and flood the engine next... when they should have only moved them about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch... forward... the result is that the engine floods at the altitude.. and doesn't produce power... BB City is about 7000 ft.. I think... this one is going to be interesting to find out what happened... most likely pilot error... GMAs
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