lost an engine

tonycondon said:
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ill be interested to hear the rest of the story on this one. losing a blade will rip the engine off the mounts pretty fast, couldve happened. if it did, i wonder what was left on the wing, hard to tell what it would take with it.
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Well, I lost a counter weight off a prop once and barely could shut it down fast enough to keep it from coming off, it broke most of the mounts in about a second and a half (this was on an R-1340).
 
Henning said:
Well, I lost a counter weight off a prop once and barely could shut it down fast enough to keep it from coming off, it broke most of the mounts in about a second and a half (this was on an R-1340).
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AgCat?
 
I've been googling for a photo of a DC-3/C-47 that lost its entire engine in flight. It came off its mounts and the photo, taken from a trailing airplane, shows the -3 soldiering on, with the engine leaving a smoky trail behind it as it plunged down.

Anybody know where I can get that photo?

-Skip
 
Here is one of which I am quite familiar (http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR76-17.pdf), as its denouement took place in 1976 just down the street from where I was living at the time.

It happened to be the very first DC-6 (XC-112A) built, flying for Mercer Airlines. The trip was to be from KBUR to KONT with only three flight crew, two cabin crew and a deadheader aboard. As it lifted off KBUR Rwy 15 a blade separated from the #3 engine, tearing the engine from its mounts. The engine landed on the intersection of the two runways. The airplane's hydraulic system was trashed as well. The pilot continued the takeoff (there is a cemetery and mausoleum immediately south of Rwy 15) and nursed the airplane through a low-altitude 270-degree right turn and landed successfully on Rwy 7 (now Rwy 8). But he realized that without brakes there was no chance of stopping before running through the fence, across Hollywood Way and into the gas station across the street. So he made it a touch-and-go.

He flew at about 250 AGL six miles west to KVNY, which had a longer runway. What he didn't realize at the time was that #2 engine oil was also lost and failure of that engine was imminent. When #2 quit the airplane could no longer maintain altitude, coming down just south of the approach end of KVNY Rwy 34L in an under-construction golf course. They might have been all right had they not hit the concrete foundation for what was to be the golf course starter's shack. The three cockpit crew died; the three in the cabin walked away.

My wife and I came home from church that rainy Sunday morning to find Woodley Avenue blocked off by emergency vehicles just south of our apartment.

-- Pilawt
 
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