This is the second Cessna that has had engine failure in the past 3 months in Hawaii, when engine failure is very rare for that aircraft. Anybody concerned about safety should be pushing to have that aircraft dug up, to find out if there is a manufacturing problem that caused the engine failure. From what I’ve read, the most common reason for engine failure is ice but that’s not a problem in Hawaii so having these 2 engine failures in such close proximity raises alarms regarding the safety of the aircraft.
Looking up information about the other Cessna that went down.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/hawaii-emergency-landing/
Oct 23rd. That’s 50 days before this crash. Less than 2 months. A bang, sparks, and stuff flying out of the plane. Quite a different description than this one.
“The AviationSafetyNetwork shows that before this incident, there had been 69 occurrences where airplanes lost power in all engines, 45 since the year 1980. (These don’t include private aircraft.) Of those 45, only two were on single-engine aircraft, both Grand Caravans. And both of those resulted in landings without fatalities.”
So between 1980 and Oct 22, 2013 there were 2 instances of engine failure on this kind of plane flown commercially. Yet within 50 days in the Maui area there were 2 instances, including the only instance where this kind of plane has had a casualty, and that casualty happened to be the woman who contradicted her state registrar to claim that Obama really was born in Hawaii.
Within 50 days in one small area of the country, this engine’s failure rate of 33 years DOUBLED and experienced its first fatality. From a government/regulatory safety perspective, that Cessna off Molokai DEFINITELY needs to be brought up. And from a forensic standpoint it also needs to be brought up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3101025/posts?page=279#279
“We had a bang, ya know, while the thing climbed up, make a turn and bang, that’s it,” said Jacob Key. “After that the beeping from all the machine came up then after a few seconds, the beeping was gone and the plane is going down.”
If there’s any kind of an ivestigation into the event, surely there are other passengers with a better command of english who will be able to describe what they saw and heard?