Plane Ditches off Edmonds, Washington (26 August 2021)

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Palmpilot

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"New engine in a crate in the hanger".

They waited too long to install it, but they did get all the run time available from the old one.

I may be a little harsh on this, as the actual failure may have been unrelated to time on the engine, and the spare bought at a bargain price for an expected far future need.

In the big picture, the pilot responded very well to the failure, initially setting up for the beach, then to the water when people on the beach made that a potentially deadly choice. Down at stall speed, no flip, and promptly out of the cockpit. All in, well flown.

Kudos to the fisherman who was alert to the 3 planes flying over, and noticed one had an engine failure, then put rescue ahead of fishing promptly enough to pick up the pilot before the plane sank. Being a Boeing employee may have had an influence in his awareness of the planes flying by.
 
My complete WAG is that he was trying to use the last bit of good VFR weather this year, then swap engines when the weather turns lousy up here.

Total conjecture.

Regardless of how he got there, it looks like some really good airmanship. Kudos to the boater who was not only paying attention, but good enough to act instead of doing like so many and simply trying to be the next viral video.
 
Palmpilot said:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/plane-crashes-water-near-edmonds-marina/7FR4U6V7RZC65D2FHGOSV6YZ7U/

Not much info in the article.

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From the Facebook group where I found out about this:

"A friend of the owner called me shortly after the pilot called him from the ambulance catastrophic engine failure very violent the sad thing is there’s a new engine in a crate at his [hangar]"​

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FATPNW/posts/10161236424554148/
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I see the people on FATPNW still haven't grasped punctuation.
 
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