Heat damage with amateur repair work started and never completed.
Equally interesting to me is why the top cowl was removed at the scene when the fuselage had burned up, and why three hops to and from Chino and a short local flight were done earlier that morning. I’d suppose with zero other factual info. that they might have been test flying to resolve an issue with the plane, But who knows.
Dan wrote:
blisters been added when the upgrade from 4 to 6 cylinders was done.
Why would a PA32 have had a 4 cylinder engine?
Anyone catch a tail number? I’m always curious what causes these engine failures, so I can avoid them. Many seem to be either running out of fuel, fuel mismanagement, or maintenance gone wrong. Sudden, catastrophe engine failure is thankfully rare.
According to Silvaire’s link above, it was N841AD.
Airborne_Again wrote:
According to Silvaire’s link above, it was N841AD.
Indeed, I’m an idiot, I tried, but I could not edit my post for some reason. Thanks!
There is a 2hr edit window on EuroGA. After that, ask me 
