Grumman Tiger loses prop in flight - Now this is how you report an aviation incident!

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Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Fort Worth, said a plane like Barnett’s Grumman can fly without a propeller, “but not for very long.”
“The bottom line is, pilots are trained from the beginning how to handle emergencies.” Lunsford said. “He handled this one like we would expect.”
 
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There's a video on YouTube of a guy loosing a prop in a 172, I think. I can't look for it now, but if it's not up here later today I'll go look for it. The engine would rev pretty quickly, I would think. So I'm not sure how he didn't notice...?
 
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My guess is he will now replace the original prop with the yellow arc with the right prop with no yellow arc. That orig prop should never have been certified with the vibration signature.
 
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“It was big bang,” recalled Barnett, 79, who was not hurt. “I didn’t know I didn’t have a prop at that time.”


Barnett explained that a propeller isn’t visible while it’s spinning, and he did not see it come off the single-engine airplane.



“But I couldn’t climb,” he said. “And I couldn’t control altitude, so I knew something was wrong.”
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Really

 
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Come on you would feel the weight in balance you would feel hear it fall off and you do see a propeller moving, who is this guy? None the less you will see a difference of no prop as to a prop..
 
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Glad it all turned out alright . At 2000 ft ,he may have been too busy to realize what the problem was.
 
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Another case of using a non-Grumman familiar mechanic. Bet he screwed up the prop flange, it's a very easy thing to do if you don't know.
 
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jpower said:
There's a video on YouTube of a guy loosing a prop in a 172, I think. I can't look for it now, but if it's not up here later today I'll go look for it. The engine would rev pretty quickly, I would think. So I'm not sure how he didn't notice...?
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Did he not feel and hear the engine screaming when it had no resitance?
 
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AdamZ said:
Did he not feel and hear the engine screaming when it had no resitance?
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Eh? What'd you say, sonny?
 
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Art VanDelay said:
Another case of using a non-Grumman familiar mechanic. Bet he screwed up the prop flange, it's a very easy thing to do if you don't know.
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Information I have is that the prop hub failed. That suggests the owner did not do the AD-mandated 200-hour dye penetrant inspections on the hub of the McCauley prop on this particular Tiger, not an installation error. We'll see what the investigation determines.

Note: This AD applies only to Tigers with the McCauley prop, not to other Grummans with McCauley props or Tigers with the Sensenich prop.
 
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AdamZ said:
Did he not feel and hear the engine screaming when it had no resitance?
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I had the same thought.

Someone doesn't look at their tach, ever. Let alone listen to the engine sound.
 
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I'm not buying this story.

A news site would NEVER report something like this.

Johnson called dispatchers to summon firefighters and an ambulance crew, but there was no major emergency.
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