Correct. It was a maintenance-induced failure. The jet was secured
properly before the maintenance. The jet was not installed correctly
after the maintenance. This resulted in a
malfunctioning carburetor
which almost killed the pilot. Anyone interested in learning from that
mistake? Nah.
The point being, there are plenty of ways for carburetors to kill you,
and because of this I am not fond of them on aircraft. On a weed eater,
sure. Maybe a lawn mower.
Shall we talk about sinking floats next? Two-piece venturis, anyone?
I remember one of the 172's at my old FTU. The hardware on the carb
heat flapper came undone and went through the engine and beat the
shit out of the spark plugs and pistons and valves.
We need more of that.
It's incredible how something so simple, can fail in so many different
ways and kill so many people.
I've mentioned before that a friend of mine had a carb fail on a cub -
it stopped feeding fuel. So he flew to the next airport, squirting the
primer. His hand was pretty sore, but he figured out an alternate way
to deliver fuel to the engine. Ancient and uninteresting history.