Originally Posted by Expressflight
(Post 11615690)
We had a PA-30-160 similarly suffer a double engine failure in the early 1980s en-route Southend to Doncaster. Turned out to be a fuel contamination issue from the aircraft being refulled from 44 gallon drums at a strip somewhere; why the aircraft was not required to have a fuel filter I will never know. Interestingly, I had an instructor turn off the fuel to the left engine as part of my BFR; I was quite surprised at how long and gradual the decline in power was ... not abrupt at all. |
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