Originally Posted by Brooklands
As to loosing a prop on a single - didn't this happen in the mid 1990s to somebody, and was one of the reasons the CAA instigated the reqiurement for crankshaft inspections on all lycomings with fixed pitch props. IIRC the person it happen to managed to pull off a forced landing and got a CAA safety award for it.
Brooklands
I attended this incident. If I remember correctly it was a Warrior being ferried back to White Waltham from the Channel Islands when it lost its propeller over Junction 10 of the M4. A very nice forced landing in a field alongside the M4 was carried out and by the time I arrived the pilot was very nonchalantly talking on his mobile phone.
It must have been in the early 90's. Is there anyway of accessing old AAIB reports? I don't seem to be able to go back further than 1996.