Skippers Aviation Cessna Conquest makes forced landing on highway
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Skippers Aviation Cessna Conquest makes forced landing on highway
Light plane makes emergency landing on remote WA's Great Northern Highway - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Out of fuel?
First one engine went then the other one for a glide in landing.
Out of fuel?
First one engine went then the other one for a glide in landing.
From the Skippers Aviation Facebook Page
I saw this on the Skippers Aviation facebook page:
"Skippers Aviation can confirm that an emergency landing was successfully carried out on the Great Northern Highway. All passengers and crew are safe with no injuries. An investigation into the cause is under way"
"Skippers Aviation can confirm that an emergency landing was successfully carried out on the Great Northern Highway. All passengers and crew are safe with no injuries. An investigation into the cause is under way"
Two feathered props on Garrett engines?
Interested to see the "why" components, but a safe outcome is a safe outcome.
Interested to see the "why" components, but a safe outcome is a safe outcome.
If it is fuel exhaustion it’s unlikely the result of a single miscalculation.
Years ago I worked for a compnany where a similar incident occurred. Fortunately, as in this case there were no injuries or aircraft damage. CAA as it was known back then suspended the Captain’s license for 28 days, and company management gave an undertaking to oversea and retrain the pilot involved.
Of course the real and complex administrative and human factors that led to the incident were never uncovered.
Years ago I worked for a compnany where a similar incident occurred. Fortunately, as in this case there were no injuries or aircraft damage. CAA as it was known back then suspended the Captain’s license for 28 days, and company management gave an undertaking to oversea and retrain the pilot involved.
Of course the real and complex administrative and human factors that led to the incident were never uncovered.
Of course the real and complex administrative and human factors that led to the incident were never uncovered
Yes, it's approved for emergency use. POH will give exact details, it usually spells out how many hours of use permitted prior to overhaul eg one model of the PT-6 allows 150 hours of cumulative use between overhauls.
10 POB the Conquest should have fuel for 90 mins to 2 hours.
Failure of the transfer pumps increases the unusable fuel significantly and when already operating at min fuel would make life pretty uncomfortable.
Failure of the transfer pumps increases the unusable fuel significantly and when already operating at min fuel would make life pretty uncomfortable.
Everyone seems to be talking fuel!
I think we should wait for the final report that might show in around 2 years.
I might be a pax spilled cans of coke over the engine computers.
- Krusty - have heard of compound errors eating into a Shorts 330 fuel reserves before.
I think we should wait for the final report that might show in around 2 years.
I might be a pax spilled cans of coke over the engine computers.
- Krusty - have heard of compound errors eating into a Shorts 330 fuel reserves before.