[Servant of the Cross]

Uh oh. Hoping that this doesn’t turn into a conspiracy thread, with wild insinuations that some Fuddy business is going on ....

[Safetgiver]

Oh,just geez... Elmer Fuddy trying for a payoff. If there hadn’t been a plane crash, her A-Fib wouldn’t have hurt her.

[fhayek]

Fuddy better keep a close eye on his brake lines. Just saying.

[immadashell]

Hmmm. Ron Brown, Vince Foster and, now, Loretta Fuddy. Hmmm.

[justlurking]

Single engine Cessna, and a Pratt/Whitney engine: it must have been a Cessna Caravan.

I hope they recovered the engine for examination. It would be interesting to find out the reason for the failure.

The engine in the Caravan is derated to less than the engine's max power, so it runs cooler and with less stress. It's very unusual for a turboprop to fail suddenly with no warning.

[KevinB]

I think a court would conclude that this was in the aircraft manufacturer's zone of reasonable foreseeability. (See, e.g, Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.) Now if she had died upon impact that would be a horse of a different color.

[bunkerhill7]

I predict a gag order by judge on WH orders,....yupyupyup

[technically right]

Well, yes, most metal when heated tends to expand. PT-6’s are as reliable as a bunson burner. P&W has been making them for a thousands years so I gotta guess that they know enough to set the clearances to account for expansion. A loud bang could mean a blade root failure or a gear box failure of some kind.

A thorough look at the maintenance logs will tell them how many hours since the last major overhaul. Now if someone has run things past the recommended TBO well, that would be a problem for the operator, not P&W

[LucyT]

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Pinging.

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[hoosiermama]

Discovery should be interesting ;-)

[trisham]

I can’t say that I blame him.

[sten]

he should demand the HI-RES go-pro video that was shot.

and make it public.

the low-res version seems to show a guy in a wet suit surface next to lorena before she dies.

also, how did the news media know one person has died... 30 minutes before any first responders show up?