Exactly what I was thinking, although ya never know what drama might
have been playing out in the cockpit while all this was going on.
Beverly Airport is only 107ft above MSL so DA shouldn't have been a
factor (the Navajo is turbocharged anyway) Even at max gross I'd expect
it to be able to climb 2-300fpm single-engine in those conditions.
Given that, you'd think the pilot would have declared and returned to
land with with the suspect engine caged.

Will