Small plane crash
 

Twin crashed at New Smyrna beach, Florida, its in shallow water it seems. Anyone got any info? Looks about the size of a Baron 58 but I can't tell.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?c...2-73a67d40f6ee

Student Pilot, Two Others OK After Engine-Out Exercise Turns Into Real Thing
Mon, 11 Jun '07

Investigators Now Searching For Missing Engine
A student practicing engine-out emergency procedures got a taste of the real thing Thursday afternoon.



According to the Volusia County sheriff's department, student pilot Rahul Gulati was practicing engine-out procedures with flight instructor Cory Strouse in a Piper PA-34-200 Seneca twin, when the CFI heard "popping" sounds coming from one of the plane's engines. Gulati told investigators the aircraft's right propeller "snapped" at about 6,000 feet.

The pilots turned their plane (type shown above) back towards New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport, but for as-yet undetermined reasons were unable to maintain speed and altitude. The aircraft came down in a marshy section of Turnbull Bay Creek, according to the Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal.

The three people onboard -- Gulati, Strouse, and student pilot Ina Chowdhury -- were able to swim away from the wreckage, and all declined medical treatment at the scene.

Investigators with the FAA and NTSB are now searching for the plane's right engine. They aren't sure whether the right engine broke off when the plane impacted the creek, or if the motor may have departed the airframe while in flight.

The accident aircraft was operated by Cloud Dancer Aviation of Daytona Beach. The News-Journal reports the plane's owner, Susan Alber, shoved one of the paper's reporters, and slapped a television station's news camera out of the way as reporters photographed and filmed her arrival.

A representative with Cloud Dancer Aviation, identified as "Candice," told reporters the pilots handled the situation according to proper emergency procedures.

"The ability and the skill to be able to handle the aircraft after a major part failure that structurally compromised this aircraft is beyond comprehension," she said.

listen dude...now get the info from the horse's mouth, i was the student who was flying that seneca...n i really wanna see how you come out of a situation when the right side propeller of ur craft comes apart n the engine hangs out of the case...how will u manage to take split second decisions n land the plane with so much of drag n with that rapid rate of descent...n might i add trying to evade all those houses in underneath....

Rahul1412

First of all, congrats and thank you for answering nano brains ridculous comments and the fact that you are even able to respond is evidence that I (fortunatly) in my 25+ years of professional flying, have never been in a situation that went so ugly as what happened to you so early on in yours. So please look beyond statements like nanobrains and move on. You have experienced something only a few of us have and lived to tell the tale. Well done.:ok:

RDG

Rahul, welcome to Pprune. All too often these kinds of failures result in fatalities to those on board or people on the ground. We're glad to have you still with us.

:)

thank you pal
 

really appreciate your support

Cloud dancer
 

Very interesting report guys. Thanks for sharing.

Cloud dancer aviation
 

:=And no, you will not be reimbursed for the items you did not use.

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