SAAB 340 Loses Prop in Flight
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:05 am
Must be a unique experience watching your propellor disappear over your wing in flight.
Very fortunate it departed in a fore and aft axis and not laterally, and that the assembly remained whole and didn't fragmemt
It would be interesting to map the aerodynamics of the propellor package on seperating and literally flying over the wing. And the distance between the empenage on its aft passage.
Well done to the crew managing the post incident ops.
No report of the prop being recovered at this stage.
Wasn't in the flight plan obviously and not on the pax briefing card.
Very fortunate it departed in a fore and aft axis and not laterally, and that the assembly remained whole and didn't fragmemt
It would be interesting to map the aerodynamics of the propellor package on seperating and literally flying over the wing. And the distance between the empenage on its aft passage.
Well done to the crew managing the post incident ops.
No report of the prop being recovered at this stage.
Wasn't in the flight plan obviously and not on the pax briefing card.