Seaplane down off Miami Beach....

The PT6 is mounted above and forward of the wing leading
edge, if the turbine had a failure, the bits and pieces are
not likely to impact the wing. But, if that happened
there will be positive evidence.

The PT6 is a pretty small turbine, they don't have many
problems internal to the engine.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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Jim Macklin
"Big John" wrote in message
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| Jay
|
| A monday morning WAG.
|
| Turbine (disk) blew up and destroyed enough of the wing
structure that
| it failed.
|
| Fuel tank(s) in wing then dumped fuel on hot parts of
turbine and
| caught fire.
|
| Wingless (one wing) fuselage impacted water and broken off
wing
| floated down burning until it hit the water.
|
| Lets see if my years of experience with accidents guessed
right on
| this bad accident.
|
| Big John
|
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| On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:08:24 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
| wrote:
|
| My guess is that they had a loose or broken fuel line,
| caught fire and the fuel vapor exploded and the fire
melted
| the spar enough for it to fail.
|
| Boy, I sure hope that's "all" it was. (Who'd ever think
we'd be saying that
| kind of stuff?)
|
| With everyone describing an "explosion" (which the video
tends to
| support) -- and Chalk's not having to do much in the way
of security
| screening, as a small carrier -- this could easily have
been some kind of a
| nut-job with a shoe bomb and a "cause".
|
| And *then* we'd start seeing all sorts of stupid
proposals for "enhanced
| security" that we don't want or need.
|
| Sad to say, a mechanical problem is the best-case
scenario.
|