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Old December 12th 19, 02:07 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
kinsell
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Default Looking for pictures of motorglider failures

On 12/8/19 9:59 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 11:46:36 AM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:
No one has mentioned jets? They can be unreliable to get started, and
there's been uncontained blade failures. Even had the engine depart the
A/C.


Interesting, I've heard of numerous failures to start and failure to climb,
but not uncontained blade failures or engine departing AC...


Page 23 on

http://www.doc.glidingaustralia.org/...ies&Itemid=101

this is probably the same incident I remembered, but that version had
the farmer making two trips to deliver spare parts.