Originally Posted by
PiperCameron
Agree. It likely would have been fuelled from drums .
It would definitely have been refuelled by the Air BP fuel truck at Horn Island after it's morning flight.
A great outcome with no loss of life or serious injury. What a terrible predicament to be in, a double engine failure scenario. In the Channel 7 video here,
https://www.facebook.com/torresshire, you can hear the engines cutting in and out. It certainly sounds like a fuel related issue, but to have both engines go at the same time is a little implausible? Maybe one was already shut down at this time, the recording sounds like a high power setting, certainly not a cruise RPM?
Having to commit to a double engine feather and glide approach to land would take some discipline and quick thinking; also something that cannot be trained for safely. The aircraft landed within about five miles from Kubin airstrip. As I stated in post #7, airspeed and ROD could have been handled better with maybe a different outcome.
Commiserations to the operator and the PIC.