engine failure

The plane was one month new to me. I had 30 hours on it since
purchasing it and had fortunately practiced single engine landings and
manual gear extension. For 30 hours there was no excessive oil
consumption or leaks or ther signs of trouble. So it's hard to blame
the mechanics who worked on it last. Just fate I guess.

Crikey! Three separate systems failed during a single flight?

Either the odds played out against you in the worst way possible, or the
folks who did your pre-buy inspection missed a bunch of stuff.

Glad you made it down okay...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Well I must confess that I didn't get a pre buy inspection. The plane
had just gone through an annual, and I went over the plane with the
shop that did the annual (St Cloud Aviation). Maybe this speaks to the
value of a pre buy, although I have a hard time believing they could
find something that was "about" to fail.

Jay Honeck wrote:
The plane was one month new to me. I had 30 hours on it since
purchasing it and had fortunately practiced single engine landings and
manual gear extension. For 30 hours there was no excessive oil
consumption or leaks or ther signs of trouble. So it's hard to blame
the mechanics who worked on it last. Just fate I guess.

Crikey! Three separate systems failed during a single flight?

Either the odds played out against you in the worst way possible, or the
folks who did your pre-buy inspection missed a bunch of stuff.

Glad you made it down okay...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"swag" wrote in message
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Well I must confess that I didn't get a pre buy inspection. The plane
had just gone through an annual, and I went over the plane with the
shop that did the annual (St Cloud Aviation). Maybe this speaks to the
value of a pre buy, although I have a hard time believing they could
find something that was "about" to fail.


snip


There are plenty of things that they could find that are ""about" to
fail"...




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Jay Honeck wrote:

Crikey! Three separate systems failed during a single flight?

Either the odds played out against you in the worst way possible, or the
folks who did your pre-buy inspection missed a bunch of stuff.


Knowing how they build in redundancies in aircraft (which would pale
the best HAZOP study), the odds are very heavily on the latter.

Nice ending to what could easily have gotten a lot worse.

Ramapriya