Bonanza crash caught on video

"RST Engineering" wrote

As the survivor of two engine failures, one accident, one glider landing,
the thing I took away from the first one is that once the engine fails,
hoping it will come back at the last instant is the last thing you want to
do. If the landing is inevitable, keep that damned double-bladed sword up
front from making things worse. When it gets down to a couple of hundred
feet, chop the power, kill the mixture, turn the mags off and let the
sucker stop.

Not sure if there was time to do that in this case, but I suppose if he had
thought "really fast" he could have perhaps done that.

Looks to me like that prop turning at 50% power or so is what inverted
this poor bugger once it dug into that hillside.

Hard to say for sure, but it is certainly possible.

Remember, to the engine it matters little whether it is the propeller or
the airframe that turns. Stop one and the other will continue to rotate.

Yep. Plus, if the engine has been shut off just for a couple seconds, it
could cool enough that there are fewer hot sources to ignite a fuel spill.
Plus, the master being off will provide fewer broken electrical bits (like
that use of correct technical nomenclature? g ) with spare electrons
running around inside them, trying to leak out! g
--
Jim in NC