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King air crashes at Wichita

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  • #2
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    It crashed into the FlightSafety International building, ironically.
    Would losing power to a single engine on dual-engined plane of this size have such a catastrophic effect?


  • #3
    Xpro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Xpro


    Id say you need savage rudder input on engine failure on aircraft that caliber, plus he attempted to turn back. Engine failures on twins have limited bank angle.

    Rip


  • #4
    Irish Steve
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    Xpro wrote: »
    Id say you need savage rudder input on engine failure on aircraft that caliber, plus he attempted to turn back. Engine failures on twins have limited bank angle.

    Rip

    The most critical thing on a small twin with an engine failure is speed. There is a speed VMCA, (speed (velocity), minimum control aircraft) below which it's impossible to keep the aircraft flying in a straight line, regardless of how much rudder is used, and on some of the earlier twins, it can be significantly higher than the lift off speed, which can make for a challenging few moments after rotation. The King Air is marginal on one engine, (555 Ft per minute climb), and if the flaps were down, and the gear was still down, which very shortly after take off is a distinct possibility, it would be all too easy for things to go badly wrong very quickly, the only way out of that scenario is to lower the nose to retain the speed, clean up the gear, feather the failed prop, and only when the speed has improved, clean up the flaps and climb away, but it's counter intuitive to lower the nose when close to the ground, and it gets pretty busy trying to sort all of that out if the aircraft is not handling correctly as well, which it won't be.

    Attempting to turn back is the "natural" response, and it's almost always going to fail in this sort of situation, there are just too many negative factors affecting the aircraft.

    A sad day for all concerned.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • #5
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    A King Air 200 struck to the North building of our Wichita Cessna Learning Center just before 10:00 am. Tragically, one of our Instructors, a Customer and his interpreter, and the pilot of the aircraft were fatally injured. Another Teammate was seriously hurt and is recovering in a Wichita Hospital.
    Issued by Flight Safety....


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