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Old 13th Mar 2022, 19:48
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Dora-9
 
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Another C 411 came to Perth, operated by Bell Bros. I think that was the one which threw a prop and nearly cut the pilot's leg in half.
That was BBV, a highly utilized (and generally thrashed) aircraft. Regarding the prop separation episode and my memories of this, the propeller struck the aircraft with the disc horizontal, so it "walked" down the fuselage narrowly missing the pilot's head. He was (luckily, in this case), a quite short gent whose name now totally escapes me, but as I recall he was uninjured though perhaps rather startled. DCA then spent a great deal of time searching for the prop - it was never located.

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