ATSB report just published on the accident to VH-AIZ, an Angel 44 twin engine'pusher' aircraft.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...r/ao-2019-072/
The aircraft crashed during simulated engine failure after lift-off at Mareeba on 14 December 2019. The report is concise, thorough and IMHO required reading by all Examiners and flying instructors. The instructor simulated an engine failure shortly (100 feet) after liftoff from a touch and go landing. Directional control was lost almost immediately.
The reasons why the loss of directional control occurred combined with other allied factors, are comprehensively covered. The report examined previous accidents of this nature of which three were over the period 2008 to 2017. It would have been more useful to have gone back a few more years to 2003. That year a Duchess VH-JWX crashed at Camden following a touch and go landing. In that accident, the highly experienced instructor cut the mixture control on the right hand engine at 50 feet. The student (a current airline pilot) was able to maintain directional control but the aircraft failed to climb on one engine because of the high drag of the windmilling propellor on the simulated failed engine. One wing clipped a tree and the Duchess belly landed under control. It then caught fire. The occupants were uninjured by the impact but received severe burns while exiting he aircraft. The instructor subsequently died.
The circumstances of both accidents (simulated engine failure following a touch and go landing) were similar. Thus the ATSB report to the Angel 44 event would have done well to include reference to the Camden accident. Both accidents prove that simulated engine failures at extremely low altitudes in light multi-engine aircraft are simply not worth the risks involved.
See ATSB report on the Camden Duchess accident.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...aair200300224/
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