Twin Commander down at VGT

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote in message
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Says alot for the engines installed in the airplane though. Takes a
lick'n and keeps on tick'n.

It seems more likely that the engine suffered no trauma at all.
Certainly, with the nose hitting first, and the plane resting on the
*right* wing and fuselage, there's no reason to necessarily believe that
the left engine or propeller had any significant contact with the ground
at all.

So, I'd say this accident says very little about the engines installed in
the airplane.

Pete

Jeez Pete,

The rest of the plane is totaled and the thing keeps running for 20 minutes.
If it doesn't say anything about the quality of the engine it certainly does
about the robustness of the fuel system.

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Well, aside from his not knowing how a turbine engine works, the report
seemed pretty factual and devoid of speculation or exaggeration.

"engine made a sputtering sound"

http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNum...NNumbertxt=7up
N7UP
Engine Manufacturer LYCOMING
Classification Standard
Engine Model IO-720

The original Aero Commander was piston, several models were piston, some
were built with turboprops, some were upgraded to turboprops, however
this 1964 680FL doesn't appear to be...

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Peter R. wrote:

Well, aside from his not knowing how a turbine engine works, the report
seemed pretty factual and devoid of speculation or exaggeration.

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A mechanic tried to stop the engine first. When he was not successful the
fire-fighters sprayed it down.

Stephen

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Peter R. wrote:

Well, aside from his not knowing how a turbine engine works, the report
seemed pretty factual and devoid of speculation or exaggeration.

-cwk.
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A mechanic tried to stop the engine first. When he was not successful the
fire-fighters sprayed it down.

Stephen

That's true, they showed one mechanic in the left gear well and another in
the cockpit area. If I remember correctly the mag and starter switches are
on an overhead panel that appears to have been displaced. It is hard to
tell from the video what RPM or power was being produced but if it was still
developing T.O. power there was a whole lot of ruckus going on!

Allen

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Peter R. wrote:

Reporter (talking about how the rescue crews dealt with trying to stop
one
of the engines that was still running):

"Firefighters moved in and started spraying water and foam directly at
the
spinning propeller trying get the thing to short out, or overload, or
stall and that's in fact what ended up happening. They finally got that
propeller to stop spinning."

Well, aside from his not knowing how a turbine engine works, the report
seemed pretty factual and devoid of speculation or exaggeration.


It wasn't a turbine engine.