Beaver loses prop in mid air - lands safely

Mad props to that pilot (pun intended).

If that happened to me, I would think being in a seaplane over water would be about as much as one could ask for.
 
CaptLabrador said:
very uncommon says the NTSB....I wouldnt want to be the last A&P to have signed off on that prop.
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You sure wouldn't. An A&P signing off a Canadian airplane in Canada would be in big trouble. We have AME's here: Aircraft Maintenance Engineers. A bit different from your American AME.

Dan (a Canadian AME)
 
AME/A&P = tomato/tomato

Besides, the A&P does not sign off the inside of prop on an annual inspection (just observable condition and AD compliance). Takes a prop shop to inspect hub root and clamp here in the USA.
Does an AME in Canada tear down the prop for the 100hgour or annual?
 
I just flew through that area last week. With out float it would have been "interesting". :eek:
 
Nicely done by all.

Although I'm thinking this is about as straightforward a flying emergency as one could have. A moment or two of terror (depending on how the prop departed and engine is shut down), followed by the mandatory glide to a large landing surface with plenty of wind to fix the direction, ruffle the waters and minimize forward momentum. The Beaver is surprisingly clean looking without a windmilling prop. The main pilot challenge is executing a dead stick flare. Hmm, I guess that would be a no-stick flare.

Just sayin'.

Nice tone to the coverage.

Seems like something didn't get safetied properly, eh?
 
Dan Thomas said:
Or the nut split. Metal parts do fail occasionally.
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...but not randomly. I'm thinking that unless a part was mis-specified in terms of strength or time in service, failure would require some kind of trauma or manufacturing defect.

Anything other than trauma of some sort would be a big deal in the Beaver community I would think.

Bill "not an engineer or maintenance pro, just a builder" Watson
 
Better to lose all of the prop than just some of it...

Sure is a head-scratcher for the failure mode though, other than a major "oops".
 
Hard to tell in such a small picture, but there doesn't seem to be much crank sticking out, and the end even looks shinier than the sides....


Crank failure?
 
Skylane81E said:
Hard to tell in such a small picture, but there doesn't seem to be much crank sticking out, and the end even looks shinier than the sides....


Crank failure?
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That's what I thought too.
 
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