Pilot Survives Enormous Crash
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Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash
RH engine mixture lever is at cut off, hard to tell what position prop levers are at but throttles do not appear to be both in same position.
Old pilots never die, they just run out of runway.
Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash
Although I am horribly conscious of the unpleasant nature of armchair accident investigation , what is fascinating to me about NHJ's photo is the mixture controls . That for the port no 1 engine is in the full rich position, but that for the no 2 engine is in the cut-off position. Yet the video quite clearly shows the left engine to be stopped . The nasty suspicion arises that the wrong engine may have been shut down followed by what looks like a well-developed stall. The Golden Eagle was a lovely aeroplane ( I got quite a bit of time as a co-pilot on one in the late 1970s ) but had quite a complicated fuel system and getting it wrong could land you in immediate difficulties - BTW this accident was just after take-off