Night engine failure in Boston

"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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"Michael 182"
Amazing story - these guys sound like they did a great job. And I'm
going
to
buy a smoke hood!

Yep, great job by the pilots. Then a good job by the reporter.

Gotta go look at smoke hoods.

This was a thriller of a narrative.

Sounds like an oil line or line fitting broke above the exhaust system and
dumped lubricating oil on the hot pipes. No oil pressure and smoke in the
cockpit. It would be interesting to know what caused the oil to depart the
engine. Was there a sloppy maintenance issue here?

Sometimes I fly a simple little airplane with an AD which requires the oil
pressure fitting to allow only a trickle of oil -- through an .032"
aperture -- so that if the line breaks the oil won't be dumped overboard
before you can find a quickie field to land on. I'm wondering if these
guys were monitoring their oil pressure all that closely. It's easy to
forget to scan.

The smoke hood sounds like a good idea. So does an onboard fire
extinguisher, although I suspect there was not a fire here, only smoke from
oil on the pipes. At least not until the impact.