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Old 15th Mar 2022, 20:42
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Originally Posted by Dora-9
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.
This sounded interesting technically, so I had a look around on the Interweb. Wasn't able to find anything, but it could be I wasn't using the right search terminology - does anyone know about the resultant investigation and if there was a report issued?

Thanks, FP.
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