Crash near Miami, FL

Reports and photographs indicate that there was a fire and
fuel explosion and one wing was blown off the airplane.
Kind of hard to fly anywhere with only half an airplane.

My guess at this point, a fuel line leak in the nacelle and
the fuel mixture in the wing root exploded.

Normal procedure for any seaplane is to land (is that
water?) but the Grumman Albatross (the Mallard is smaller)
with the turboprop engines flies just fine on one engine.


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"Hilton" wrote in message
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| Tim wrote:
| Then again, maybe someone will focus on the inherent
danger of flying
| paying passengers in an airplane that can't maintain a
takeoff flight path
| with one engine inoperative.
|
| Not a problem when you're taking off on an infinitely long
runway as they
| were.
|
| Gees, I hate it when infants, kids, babies die. Sad...
|
| Hilton
|
|

Jim Macklin wrote:

Reports and photographs indicate that there was a fire and
fuel explosion and one wing was blown off the airplane.
Kind of hard to fly anywhere with only half an airplane.

My guess at this point, a fuel line leak in the nacelle and
the fuel mixture in the wing root exploded.

Normal procedure for any seaplane is to land (is that
water?) but the Grumman Albatross (the Mallard is smaller)
with the turboprop engines flies just fine on one engine.


Engine failure was pure speculation on my part. An in-flight explosion
brings to mind all kinds of ugly possibililites.

wrote in message news:ffVpf.1989$LB5.1838@fed1read04...
Jim Macklin wrote:


Engine failure was pure speculation on my part. An in-flight explosion
brings to mind all kinds of ugly possibililites.

While it appears there may be fire/explosion prior to impact this time. The
truth is that in almost every instance of a witnessed aircraft crash there
will be eyewitnesses reporting a pre-impact fire or explosion, even when
that didn't happen.

For example an Avianca 707 crashed in NY due to fuel exhaustion. There was
no evidence of even a post crash fire. The earliest eyemitness accounts
reported the aircraft variously as on fire or exploding and then falling.
As often as not witness reports of fire are an artifact of emotion of
witnessing a traumatic event.

People could witness a glider crash into a lake and someone would report it
exploded and burned before impact.

--
Scott

Sight is based on expectation as is hearing. That is why
witnesses are just a place to start and investigation. At
least this time they have video, photographs and all the
wreckage.

Read this list
YIELD NO LEFT TURN ON RED SOTP NO PARKING



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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| wrote in message
news:ffVpf.1989$LB5.1838@fed1read04...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
|
|
| Engine failure was pure speculation on my part. An
in-flight explosion
| brings to mind all kinds of ugly possibililites.
|
| While it appears there may be fire/explosion prior to
impact this time. The
| truth is that in almost every instance of a witnessed
aircraft crash there
| will be eyewitnesses reporting a pre-impact fire or
explosion, even when
| that didn't happen.
|
| For example an Avianca 707 crashed in NY due to fuel
exhaustion. There was
| no evidence of even a post crash fire. The earliest
eyemitness accounts
| reported the aircraft variously as on fire or exploding
and then falling.
| As often as not witness reports of fire are an artifact of
emotion of
| witnessing a traumatic event.
|
| People could witness a glider crash into a lake and
someone would report it
| exploded and burned before impact.
|
| --
| Scott
|
|