Federal team will try to lift crashed plane from seafloor

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services ^ | December 17, 2013 | Sarah Zoellick

[WhiskeyX]

Dec. 17--The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it plans to recover the plane that crashed off Kalaupapa last week with eight passengers aboard, including Department of Health Director Loretta Fuddy, who died after safely evacuating the aircraft. [....] In the Makani Kai case, Maui officials have not yet released an official cause of death for Fuddy,.... An autopsy was conducted Friday. [....] Services for Fuddy have been set for Saturday....

[Nita Nupress]

Thank you for your response. I just saw where they’ve retrieved the engine, so maybe we’ll know more soon.

[Nita Nupress]

<< but probably the one next to her just held her head underwater for a couple of mins while she was floating and bobbing. >>

What an awful mental picture. Ugh.

Someone just posted a thread saying they have the engine. Should be very interesting...

[Nita Nupress]

<< A lot of those questions answered in the source article, including the .... >>

Yeah, that figures. ...Happily asking questions without first reading the source article since 1998. LOL.

Thanks!

[diogenes ghost]

My post to you was in reference to the "Curtiss-Wright Turboprop", not to the known problems with the P&W PT-6 series.

208's have carried several variants of PT-6, and some have been modified by Aero-Twin with TRE-331's.

But Curtiss-Wright has not been an engine source, they no longer build engines, and never built a turboprop.

[WhiskeyX]

Yes, I know. One of the Web pages I found was discussing an engine manufactured in India. Touting the product, they also noted the incompatibilities and/or differences. Counterclockwise props, different control group location/s, and other.

I don’t know which engine was used in this crashed Cessna. The intent of mentioning the PT-6 in the first place was just to refute some comments claiming these Cessna Caravan/Grand Caravan engines “never” fail.

[Carriage Hill]

These are NOT nice people in and working for this administration-from-hell.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

Hi, butterdezillion;

With total power loss and no chance of a restart, you go to best glide speed and put it down in the best possible place. Because the Caravan is a fixed gear airplane, when it hits the water, there is a very good chance it will flip over and make egress that much more difficult.

As for disrupting the compressor, that is in the middle of the engine. As a pilot, I can think of a couple of tricks to disrupt a compressor, like a really fast power reduction. But to disrupt it as a form of sabotage? I have no clue how to do that. If I were going to sabotage an aircraft like a Caravan, I think I would look at fuel contamination.