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Essendon King Air Crash
ATSB Release The Preliminary Report
No engine failure? Seven Mayday calls? (Three is normal) No gear retraction. The voice recorder kept the previous flight but didn't work for this one. Only slight tailwind component. The ADS-B plot showed climb rate of 570 feet per minute off the deck and speed of 116 kts. VMCA is 86 kts, and blue line is 121 kts. Track shows left drift started immediately ... left engine may have working but not been delivering full power.
Talk about confusing. Overloading or incorrect loading? Was he shot? Just about the only thing we can't disregard is UFO activity. Will have to wait for comprehensive analysis of the props to see how much power was being delivered.
As always in this business, this is gonna take some time. Read the report HERE
29 Mar 2017
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