X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from hub026-NJ-4.exch026.serverdata.net ([206.225.166.167] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.6) with ESMTPS id 5623124 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:53:01 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.225.166.167; envelope-from=jwhaley@datacast.com Received: from MBX026-E1-NJ-6.exch026.domain.local ([10.240.14.56]) by HUB026-NJ-4.exch026.domain.local ([10.240.14.39]) with mapi id 14.02.0309.002; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:52:25 -0700 From: Jeff Whaley To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' Subject: One rotary down and out Thread-Topic: One rotary down and out Thread-Index: Ac1R9jarWROpEBJ2R/u9vwl9Nir5zQ== Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:52:25 +0000 Message-ID: <234B758DE9A64449BEB6BB5D1345CA7AF4EA18@mbx026-e1-nj-6.exch026.domain.local> Accept-Language: en-CA, en-US Content-Language: en-CA X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [204.237.113.64] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_234B758DE9A64449BEB6BB5D1345CA7AF4EA18mbx026e1nj6exch02_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_234B758DE9A64449BEB6BB5D1345CA7AF4EA18mbx026e1nj6exch02_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry to post bad news guys but need to share this with you form a safety p= erspective. Anyway what happened ... engine failure, prop stopped went into a corn fiel= d and flipped over. I have 2 fuel pumps; decided to turn 1 off, when I did the engine quit - pu= mp back on okay - repeated same result. 5 miles from home base I headed back, radioed inbound, 1 minute later I tho= ught I smelled fuel and another 1 minute later the engine quit. Trimmed the= airplane, mayday and glided straight ahead. Lots of corn and a few soya be= an fields around but didn't want to land in them, saw a gravel road and tur= ned to line up on it, pulled on full flaps for minimum landing speed, when = I turned final there was a huge elm tree on the right edge at my expected t= ouch down point, so at 100' I turned left into the field which was corn ...= everything was going great until I hit the corn. Thankfully the seats bel= ts and shoulder harnesses did their job; upside down I released the belts a= nd got out of there fast. Walked out, phoned police and after they arrived authorities wanted the ELT= shut off so we walked back to the airplane; when I got there I saw oil all= over the bottom of fuselage. Checked engine and found the oil-out line (pu= sh-lock connector) hanging loose. I expect what happened is when the engine= quit and restarted those 2 times that sent a burst of oil pressure and ble= w the hose off ... I pushed it back on and it would not pull back off again= . I had heard some guys were putting heat shrink or other back-up systems o= n these connectors; I wish now I had used a simple stainless worm clamp. E= ngine and redrive will be toast, airplane is substantially damaged ... I'll= salvage what I can. Jeff This message, and the documents attached hereto, is intended only for the a= ddressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauth= orized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message= in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal= records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you. --_000_234B758DE9A64449BEB6BB5D1345CA7AF4EA18mbx026e1nj6exch02_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Sorry to post bad news guys but need to share this with you form a safet= y perspective.

Anyway what happened ... engine failure, prop stopped went into a corn f= ield and flipped over.
I have 2 fuel pumps; decided to turn 1 off, when I did the engine quit - pu= mp back on okay - repeated same result.
5 miles from home base I headed back, radioed inbound, 1 minute later = I thought I smelled fuel and another 1 minute later the engine quit. Trimme= d the airplane, mayday and glided straight ahead. Lots of corn and a few so= ya bean fields around but didn't want to land in them, saw a gravel road and turned to line up on it, pulled on = full flaps for minimum landing speed, when I turned final there was a huge = elm tree on the right edge at my expected touch down point, so at 100' I tu= rned left into the field which was corn ... everything was going great until I hit the corn. Thank= fully the seats belts and shoulder harnesses did their job; upside down I r= eleased the belts and got out of there fast.

Walked out, phoned police and after they arrived authorities wanted the = ELT shut off so we walked back to the airplane; when I got there I saw oil = all over the bottom of fuselage. Checked engine and found the oil-out line = (push-lock connector) hanging loose. I expect what happened is when the engine quit and restarted those 2 times= that sent a burst of oil pressure and blew the hose off ... I pushed it ba= ck on and it would not pull back off again. I had heard some guys were putt= ing heat shrink or other back-up systems on these connectors; I wish now I had used a simple stainless worm= clamp. Engine and redrive will be toast, airplane is substantially d= amaged ... I'll salvage what I can.
Jeff

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