The PT6A is one of the most reliable, rugged turboprop engines you can get. Loved it.
I heard of one case a few years ago in which a Kingair of some variety landed somewhere in S Africa in the bush with some sort of problem - can't remember what. The pilot (somewhat hurriedly) shut the engines down and leapt out (he was on his own in the aircraft and as he vacated the area upwind, realised he had not completely shut down one engine, since it was still running. Rather than climb through the aircraft to the cockpit, he reached inside the door and pulled out his hunting rifle, and fired it into the engine until it stopped.
Whatever the problem had been, it was spurious. The pilot was rescued shortly thereafter, as was the aircraft, which had no damage whatsoever except that one of its engines had been shot to death!
