My most unusual, freaky, one in a million event was flying a Seneca V up to Inverness in winter.
There was a cold front lying west to East above Glasgow forcing me to eyeball the front and CBs and to head East for a gap in the line where I could get through and into Inverness.
I was in icing at FL100 and climbed as I wanted to get out of the icing and to be able to eyeball the front ahead.
At FL130 the aircraft struggled back on top but had picked up a fair amount of ice in the process.
There was an out of balance shudder. I later found out that the prop deice had failed on the left engine with all three electric cables having sheared.
All of a sudden a large piece of ice flew from the left prop across the nose and hit the right prop bending the tip.
With 160 kts airflow over the aircraft the chances of that must have been one in a million and the ice block must have projected forward at one heck of an angle.
That wasnt the end. The Seneca has reciprical engines which allowed this to happen in the first place.
Having hit and bent the prop the prop threw the ice block into the side of the fusealage/nose and punctured a hole before projecting from there into the screen with one heck of a bang.
On that impact it fractured into a snow storm of a million pieces thankfully not breaking the screen.
The complete incident was a fluke and the aircraft still bares the scar from the repair on the fusealage nose.
Unbelievable but true
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