SEAT Off airport landing

[bocefus]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jul/03/070310031.html

 

[avbug]

I flew that airplane on a fire about a week previous, from that location.

 

[Metro752]

glad everyone is ok

 

[bocefus]

Likewise. Any idea what happened? That wouldn't be one of them there highly reliable and bullet proof PT-6's would it?

 

[avbug]

The powerplant was not a PT6A, though they are extremely reliable and darn near "bulletproof," in terms of operational reliability. In this case, the powerplant was a Honeywell/Garrett TPE-331-11.

A fresh investigation is underway, and accordingly, I am not at liberty to comment on the cause. I will submit that this wasn't an engine failure, per se. I did have one a day after I flew this airplane, in a different airplane with a -11 powerplant, due to a FCU failure.

The Dromader to which the article refers in this thread is back in service, and was flown off the road where it landed, the following day.