Bolt falls out............airplane crashes
Is this sarcasm? Pipers are death traps more so than any other 4 place SEL aircraft? Statistics I found don't agree they are any worse, not that the statistics are great for GA in the first place...
Why watch when you can read?
The /s at the end is a great indicator of sarcasm.
I hate it when people are sarcastic /r
Why watch when you can read?
Accident Piper PA-34-200 Seneca N28HE,
On May 3, 2023, about 1329 central daylight time, a Piper PA-34-200 airplane, N28HE, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Coldspring, Texas. The pilot exa...aviation-safety.net
Ya pull a prank on a guy and he hounds you for the rest of you lifeI’ll miss him. But I’ll never tell anyone he was a great pilot.
I’m still waiting on an opportunity to try it on someone else.Ya pull a prank on a guy and he hounds you for the rest of you life
Then replace it prophylactically, and eat the MIF opportunity cost; and present day prices/labor of course.
You should be. Loose bolts get worn thinner on the shank, and they can fail A careful mechanic would have taken the bolt out and examined it.
So far. With the old stuff wearing out and mechanics not catching it, there will be increasing numbers of accidents until the governments force huge ADs on everyone to get the stuff inspected properly. A mechanic is supposed to be suspicious of everything in that airplane, not taking anything for granted. If something is sloppy, why is it sloppy?
De facto service/calendar limits by insurance companies seems more likely to me, or, less likely, a "major overhaul" requirement for airframes every X decades, but I doubt that, with pilot error being the biggest slice of the accident pie.
. Seriously I hope @Daniel Millican would consider having him on.
The internal one might be steel, but that bolt, as you say, is to pinch that internal bushing so that the only movement is between it and its bearing.
Mine turns readily. Without resistance.
So I took the time to watch the whole video. The Examiner mentions that they did make a point of preflighting the bolt in question. Theirs actually had a cotter pin through it in addition to a nylock so the head had to have popped off the bolt. I believe mine is only a locking nut. As I understand that assembly, there's a bronze bushing inside the eye on the rod, and then the bolt actually pinches another bronze bushing to the stamped link, and the only moving surface SHOULD be the the two bronze bushings nested inside each other. The most likely scenario I think is that the bolt got loose and was spinning in the link, and he mentioned (as I understood it, the audio was pretty poor) that they did a visual check but didn't try to turn it. Probably is worth replacing those bolts once in a while as they're both critical and relatively cheap, as well as touching/trying to twist it during preflight. Good to know about, and hopefully someone can capture a better quality version of the speech at some point.... Too bad there's no good youtubers in Texas
Yep, listened to that one last week. Had to be one of Mr. McSpadden's last interviews. Much easier to follow, which some good questions from Dick, as you might imagine. Well worth the listen.
Nice, that's what I was looking for.
All of that stuff likely need checking. From FAR 43, Appendix D, which has the MINIMUM requirements for an annual:
I know my A&P always has that fairing off at annual but as far as I know he just looks it over and lubes everything. If I understand this issue correctly you wouldn't be able to detect a problem without removing the bolt which I don't expect most mechanics would do without a reason.
