Here’s another one from 2002
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/17023
Yep was probably trying to stretch the glide and AOA got too high.
No the stick pusher kicked in, and he may have fought it!
Weird ! Erratic pitch movements. Panic ?
It doesn’t look like a a spin in this video.
Thank you for the Grade A input, Magyarflyer.
Perhaps high and low key points in a constant aspect technique forced landing ?
That explains why it has no wings. What’s Alpha one and two?
this is my home field. My mechanic was there before and after the accident. The airplane came over the field on the north threshold with adequate height for a landing but decided (felt too high I assume) to make a 360 and headed north to lose height, During the turn towards the airport entered a spin luckily ended up flat. I went there the day after and saw the sorry sight. I guess he never did the alpha one and alpha 2 maneuver. At no moment did he put the gear or flaps down. Engine was silent during the entire episode. What a pity. Wonder what made the engine fail. I am sure PW engineers will be there to find out. Should have been a survivable accident. Easy to criticize. Lucky only got a broken leg. The value of alpha one and alpha 2 maneuvers is incalculable. We do that every year on our recurrent training for insurance purposes on my turbine airplane which has similar glide ratio as the PC-12.
RobertL18C wrote:
If it was the Fuel Control Unit the partial power procedure has a Manual Override (MOR) which allows power to be set at NG80% plus. The PIC may need to bump the starter generator to help the MOR stabilise the turbine.
Indeed MOR is the most likely way to handle an FCU failure. Hard to see many failure modes short of running out of fuel or fuel system icing where it is anything other than a failure in the FCU.
