Originally Posted by
capngrog
What makes you think that "only the starboard engine was running".? The poor quality video shows an unchecked right turn while on the ramp. This would result from asymmetrical thrust and an inability to steer the airplane. The left engine appeared to have been severely damaged, and the right hand engine was feathered (I understand that turboprop engines feather upon routine shut down). If the right engine had been running and producing thrust at the time of the left engine's impact with the fence, I think the damage would have been much more severe and the scene infinitely more chaotic. I also would think that the teenaged girl pilot would have been a bit too dazed to have shut down a running engine herself. Surely outside intervention to shut down the engine would have been mentioned at the press conference.
Oh, well, just my opinion, and I've been wrogn before.
Christmas Cheers,
Grog
I think you may be right. I didn't notice the feathered prop in the still photo and the way the aircraft spun into the fence makes your interpretation more likely. I stand (possibly) corrected.
So . . . lucky girl. Lucky she didn't get it off the ground, too.