Originally Posted by
MarcK
The prop was not turning at the time of the crash:
On first impressions perhaps. The eyewitness report in the other thread may offer a different explanation:
I thought (1) this cannot happen and (2) soon there will be a stall. Which happened immediately, the Epic dipped over the left wing, made half a roll downwards (so that I could see the entire bottom of the aircraft) and impacted vertically, immediately followed by an impact fire."
If the aircraft crashed inverted, it is quite possible that there was no immediate contact between the propeller and the ground, so I'm not sure that assumption is valid. IMO an uncommanded PT6 turbine shutdown seconds before landing seems extraordinarily unlikely.