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Navaho crash lands, Beverly, Ma.
Twin engine plane crash landed in Beverly, Ma. Pilot safe.
I was returning from taking my sister for an hour's ride (she never flew in a small plane). I was on downwind for a T&G and there was a Navaho on the runway - cleared for takeoff. I turn base and am watching..the navaho doesn't move. Finally the tower tells the Navaho to expedite and it moves. So I turn final - watching to be sure it's out of the way (no problem). AS I round out, the tower tells the Navaho there's smoke from the starboard engine, and that he better land it. He turns left. By this time I'm just rolling. I knew he had a problem - I can see the smoke. For a split second I consider chaning my T&G to a full stop but decide against that as the Tower was probably very busy and doesn't need the complication, and my plane might suddenly be in the way if I stopped. I see him pass off to my left VERY low. He did close to a 180. So up I go. The airport is closed by the time I turn crosswind. There are two of us in the vicinity and the tower stacks me at 1500 and the other at 2000. We orbit. I'm asked my fuel state and if I want to divert. I say, no I'm content to orbit for a while. I have a lot of gas. the other guy diverts to Lawrence. Once I get on "downwind" I see the twin..in the grass, gear up. Trucks appear from nowhere in a very short period of time. Police have the plane cordoned off. Takes them only about 20 minutes to get the situtaion under control and the airport re-opened. I land. here's the Boston Globe Article on it: http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas..._in_ danvers/ -- Saville Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm Steambending FAQ with photos: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm |
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p.s. The FBO told me that the Navaho JUSt had 2 new engines put in to the tune of $54,000 per engine.... -- Saville Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm Steambending FAQ with photos: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm |
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gregg wrote:
Twin engine plane crash landed in Beverly, Ma. Pilot safe. I was returning from taking my sister for an hour's ride (she never flew in a small plane). I was on downwind for a T&G and there was a Navaho on the runway - cleared for takeoff. I turn base and am watching..the navaho doesn't move. Finally the tower tells the Navaho to expedite and it moves. So I turn final - watching to be sure it's out of the way (no problem). AS I round out, the tower tells the Navaho there's smoke from the starboard engine, and that he better land it. He turns left. By this time I'm just rolling. I knew he had a problem - I can see the smoke. For a split second I consider chaning my T&G to a full stop but decide against that as the Tower was probably very busy and doesn't need the complication, and my plane might suddenly be in the way if I stopped. I see him pass off to my left VERY low. He did close to a 180. So up I go. The airport is closed by the time I turn crosswind. There are two of us in the vicinity and the tower stacks me at 1500 and the other at 2000. We orbit. I'm asked my fuel state and if I want to divert. I say, no I'm content to orbit for a while. I have a lot of gas. the other guy diverts to Lawrence. Once I get on "downwind" I see the twin..in the grass, gear up. Trucks appear from nowhere in a very short period of time. Police have the plane cordoned off. Takes them only about 20 minutes to get the situtaion under control and the airport re-opened. I land. here's the Boston Globe Article on it: http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas..._in_ danvers/ Thanks for the report. It's great to have it from a pilot who actually saw it. I haven't read the Globe article because journalists have a reputation for creating their own reality. |
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"gregg" wrote in message
p.s. The FBO told me that the Navaho JUSt had 2 new engines put in to the tune of $54,000 per engine.... I just had a Navajo Chieftain engine overhauled for under $37k including accessories and installation. D. |
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Also, the Boston Globe article had a NUMBer of facts totally wrong about hte case. -- Saville Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm Steambending FAQ with photos: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm |
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"gregg" wrote in message
... Also, the Boston Globe article had a NUMBer of facts totally wrong about hte case. Like the spelling of the name of the airplane? |
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Peter Duniho wrote:
"gregg" wrote in message ... Also, the Boston Globe article had a NUMBer of facts totally wrong about hte case. Like the spelling of the name of the airplane? I mispelled the name. So sorry. But no, I was more thinking about the article statements like: "State police said Lake may have been forced to land because of a mechanical problem with the plane's left engine." - the visible smoke was coming from the right engine. Doesn't preclude the possibility of the left engine being bad as well, but both the tower my sister and and I saw the smoke from the right. "But around noon, as one of the plane's engines was "running rough," he returned to the airport.." - He had not really left the airport, though I suppose this is a nitpick. He was on climbout when the tower called him and said he had smoke from the right engine. ".....and landed in a grassy field about a quarter of a mile from a runway,.." This statement plus the "returned to the airport", can be misleading. It might make one think he didn't make the airport. But he did..he landed in a grassy area between a taxiway and a runway. -- Saville Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm Steambending FAQ with photos: http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm |
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I've got a REALLY stupid question ...
By the time you are flying something in the Navaho category you've got a few dozen hours behind the windshield... and the Navaho has at least marginal single engine climb... and the ******* wasn't on fire, just smoking... and, in general, an engine smoking will stop smoking when you pull the fuel flow to the engine... why didn't he go around, single engine, drop the gear, and put it on the runway? Jim |
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:12:37 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote: BTDT, do a crapload of 50 & 100 hrs on PA31's (flying them around the patch afterward to make sure everything works) and it's going to happen every once in awhile. Only ever had to shut one completely down, the rest were with the problem child at idle (or just above). The one that got caged was intercooler equipped, had to pull the turbo supply hose off to get the oil filter off, and I had only started it back on the fitting. By the time we saw the oil streaming the oil pressure indication was jumping around so I feathered it. Most common scenario was a chunk of crud in an injector nozzle after r/r for cleaning-rather ironic when you think about it. Problem then is depending on the state of the partially plugged nozzle you end up down on TO power, with the potential of destroying the lean cylinder by detonation. Probably should mention never have had a twin rating/offeeshul twin training, but always had somebody that did in the right seat. TC I've got a REALLY stupid question ... By the time you are flying something in the Navaho category you've got a few dozen hours behind the windshield... and the Navaho has at least marginal single engine climb... and the ******* wasn't on fire, just smoking... and, in general, an engine smoking will stop smoking when you pull the fuel flow to the engine... why didn't he go around, single engine, drop the gear, and put it on the runway? Jim |
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Exactly what I was thinking, although ya never know what drama might
have been playing out in the cockpit while all this was going on. Beverly Airport is only 107ft above MSL so DA shouldn't have been a factor (the Navajo is turbocharged anyway) Even at max gross I'd expect it to be able to climb 2-300fpm single-engine in those conditions. Given that, you'd think the pilot would have declared and returned to land with with the suspect engine caged. Will |
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