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Thu, Feb 17, 2005

Airport Official: February 9th Accident Caused By Fuel Exhaustion

Yankee Went Down On Golf Course

There was no fuel in the right wing tank of the Grumman AA-1 that went down on a California golf course February 9th, according to the manager of Petaluma Municipal Airport.

"He was low and slow. It was a classic stall and spin accident," Airport Manager Michael Glose told the Argus-Courier Newspaper.

San Francisco resident Roger Stephen Mann, 56, was killed in the accident at the Rooster Run Golf Course, shortly after his Yankee (file photo of type, above) took off from Petaluma Municipal, according to authorities. Witnesses said he was only 100 feet or so in the air when the engine began to sputter.

"There was a backfire and then the engine quit," said golfer George Phillips, who was just coming off the 18th green when the AA-1 went down nearby.

Mann, according to witnesses at the airport, had been practicing touch-and-go's. The accident occurred on his third take-off.

FMI: www.ntsb.gov

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