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Watch This Pilot Somehow Crash And Fly Away At The Same Time
Sometimes pilots make mistakes. If they’re lucky, nobody gets hurt and you walk away to fly another day. This pilot somehow managed to make a series of bad choices and still managed to keep on flying. (flightclub.jalopnik.com) さらに...
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Only 230 hrs since overhaul. Maybe that is why those engines survived the abuse though they now need major inspection. The vibrations on the way to FXE also had to be significant with the super Q-tips. This pilot should be so dead that I put it beyond luck. God just gave him a break!
Yeah, it would have been one thing to realize they weren't down, high enough to gas and go around, but once the props hit the concrete, he should have just set it down and took the lumps. As it is, if it does sell, somebody will get screwed if a buyer doesn't do some checking. LOL
I like your comment "that pilot should be so dead". LOL
Insurance company's require crank replacement and if gear drive that too.
He's selling it "needs props" Probably a little skin damage too. At any rate, a halfway knowledgeable buy would have to ask about the other props and insist on having a good A&P man look over the engines. He'd have been better off to call the insurance company, if he had any.
An A&P cannot just look over the engine. See post above. Service Bulletin must be complied with by a shop capable of performing the tear down inspection. (Read: engine shop) Yes, letting the insurance company deal with it is best. Having gone thorugh this process a LOT, I always find it amazing that owners are so scared of the insurance company to the point they want to short cut everything! It does nothing for the image of our profession. Besides... There is more than one story of a prop strike shortcut ending up with a catastrophic engine failure many hours later that killed people. Is a short cut really worth killing yourself, or worse, someone else?
No. They. Don't. I deal with this constantly. The details are clearly spelled out in the Lycoming or Continental Service Bulletins. Crankshaft replacement is only predicated by the findings of the inspection. There is no "automatic" crankshaft replacement.
You got to admit though, them would have taken a hellacious jolt though.
Where the problems really come from in a prop strike accident is when the engine stops suddenly. Of sudden engine stop is cause for a complete engine teardown. Anyway I will not be in the market for an Aerostar that was based in Florida!
Yeah that is true. Know of a Duke engine breaking the crank inflight, in 3 places. And that was not hitting anything but air! However, I guess dynamically, it is easier on a crank to take damage to the prop, as it is a more gradual event than ingesting a valve and trying to come to an instant stop.
All they did was risk their lives. If one of the props was unballanced enough to cause a strong vibration and possibly cause the engine to come off, then lives would have been lost, possibly more than thier own.