Hmmm - our speculations seem to have been close to target in this case - took more than one prop blade to fatally injure the airframe.
- Primary cause - faulty prop maintenance
- #2 prop blade 4 separates due to corrosion/fatigue, slices through port side of fuselage, embeds inside starboard side of fuselage.
- jolt for that event causes entire prop #3 to separate at the gearbox and slice into starboard side of fuselage, and then into starboard HS fin, separating a large portion of that.
- separation of control runs, loss of stabilizer, weakened airframe results in LOCA and breakup