Pilot LOSES PROPELLER MID-AIR! [REAL ATC] #atc #aviation
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Published 2024-04-14
About 55 nautical miles south-west of Sydney airport, the crew noticed uncommanded engine indications and began the necessary checklists. While undertaking the checklist items, the crew experienced minor vibrations from the right engine. These vibrations worsened as the checklist progressed and became visually evident to the First Officer. As a result the crew commenced the engine shutdown procedure. During the engine shutdown procedure, the propeller separated from the aircraft. The crew made a Pan-Pan call to air traffic control, and completed the engine shutdown procedure. The aircraft landed without incident at Sydney airport.
On 21 March 2017, the NSW Police Aviation Support Branch (PolAir) undertook a search operation for the separated propeller. The propeller was located in an area under dense forest about 8NM south-west of Sydney airport. The propeller was found with the flange section of propeller shaft secured to the propeller assembly and a fracture through the propeller shaft.
Contributing factors:
1. The propeller shaft failed as a result of a fatigue crack that had initiated at the dowel pin hole and propagated through the shaft until it could no longer transmit the required loads.
2. The engine manufacturer did not have specific inspection procedures in the maintenance documents of the propeller shaft to detect a fatigue crack originating from the dowel pin hole. [Safety Issue]
Other safety factors
The form used by Regional Express during a propeller removal and installation, HM-26 Revision 5, included the task to inspect the propeller gearbox, but did not provide for recording of inspection findings as defined within documented procedures. Consequently, this did not provide for the best opportunity to ensure potential defects were identified, recorded and monitored.
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All Comments (21)
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Cathay 101 was told to remain on the localizer for 16R by ATC, read back holding on the localizer for 16L and ATC didn’t realise or correct him. I’m assuming Cathay didn’t realise they’d read back 16L either and stayed on 16R which is why it wasn’t caught. But anyone else listening on the same frequency might get easily confused, especially if they’re the ones holding on the 16L localizer! Then people start wasting time trying to work out what’s going on with the ‘communicate’ and forget to concentrate on the ‘aviate’…. example of how the good old ‘Swiss cheese model’ could have come into play there, but thankfully nobody was paying attention to each others or indeed their own read backs at that point, so all remained the same positional wise. 😬 I get it was a busier workload, but there was a few ATC working that and there’s been too many of these mistakes lately.
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Prop's to the pilot!
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A lot of calm, collected & professional people involved there. No histrionics, no panic, nothing but doing the right thing.
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The change it attitude from the Qantas Link pilot when he was told that there were TWO PAN-PANs, his being the medical and the other being an engine out PAN...Yep, no worries, we"ll take 16L thank you!
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Got to love Australian ATC and pilots, the incident was very well handled by all involved
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Note “we REQUIRE “. That phrase is critical when dealing with ATC and no options
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I flew that aircraft the first flight back after its repair. Followed a dash-8 to ABX, in their wake turbulence. That occasional bump from the wake made me feel uneasy.
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Back in the 70s, in the beautiful skies over Rio de Janeiro a pilot was doing loops, rolls and hammerheads with the flying club's Fokker S-11. Then, suddenly the propeller departed the airplane, and the pilot made an uneventful landing at the flying field. The airplane went in for inspection and prop replacement, and not much more was thought of it. About an hour later, an angry man enters the flying club, carrying a large wooden propeller and says, "I think this belongs to you people. It fell in my back yard in the middle of a barbeque party. It was by chance that you didn't kill anyone."
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Great video, thanks. Excellent handling and choosing the right priorities by ATC when it became clear that TWO emergencies (or PANs, for that matter) are inbound simultaneously. [Actually, would be great to see that in the video title as well)
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As a Rex flyer from Wagga Wagga I'm a happy customer. I live close by Wagga airport. I've come to love the sound of a taxiing Saab 340 over the past 22 years.
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well done ATC and crew.
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Much Respect for the calm cool and collected flight crew!!!😎
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Back in the '70s I used to walk to the end of that runway and go fishing. I was a young teenager. My dad would drop me off in the morning and pick me up in the afternoon. You could do that back then.
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They're lucky the prop didn't go through the plane
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Cool and Calm. Well done Rex pilots and ATC
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As a Rex Airlines traveller, I remember when this happened. Flying with Rex a few months later from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island, we had to stand on the tarmac waiting to board the plane, while Rex ground staff pumped up one of the tyres! Someone said, "Have you checked the propellers?" Oh no, I didn't need that...😱
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Props - pun unintended - to both aircraft, the suddenly-one-engined craft AND the medical craft. That exchange with the QLink was classic!
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Amen to That, If it skewed into the Aircraft then you have Big Problems and that's an understatement. Well handled by The On Board Crew and Air Traffic Control.
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Excellent content mate, fantastic context. Keep up the good work.
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The service truck hit the tail of the plane! 😂
