Propellor falls off Rex Saab 340 in NSW Australia

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Originally Posted by spinex

Well here's the prelim report, seems the pprune aib got it more or less right; Investigation: AO-2017-032 - In-flight propeller malfunction involving SAAB 340 VH-NRX, 19 km SW of Sydney Airport, NSW, on 17 March 2017

Indeed

Of note

This is the first known critical failure of this type

Really curious if they will be able to pinpoint the root cause.