DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
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- midlifeflyer
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Airframe generally don't do well when hilting power lines. That alone can be deadly.A Dopo wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:26 pm Not many fires in any of the crashes, and I was surprised to see the fire.
So glad to hear they are OK.
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
And the wing hit a semi, but they still got out before the fire got going.midlifeflyer wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:08 pmAirframe generally don't do well when hilting power lines. That alone can be deadly.A Dopo wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:26 pm Not many fires in any of the crashes, and I was surprised to see the fire.
We need to know the cause of the engine failure.
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY?
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
No. I don't think Diamond has ever made any comment on any accident involving a Diamond.ScottOHare wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:29 pm Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY?
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Nice presentation on the accident:
Juan Brown always does a good job on these accident videos. Presents the facts as they are known, doesn't speculate.
Juan Brown always does a good job on these accident videos. Presents the facts as they are known, doesn't speculate.
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
It was in NY - IMC engine failure during training flight with CFI on board who magnificently controlled the ATC-guided descent to a happy outcome on a runway. However, Diamond communications on this and numerous other Austro engine failures are poor at best. EG., why did Blue Line training flight DA40 go down in NC a year or so ago? Way too many failures now to call any of them anomalistic. Brand value decreases exponentially when known failures are not diagnosed and communicated by the manufacturer. I personally would never own a Diamond Austro single again. Would happily buy a 42 or 62 if I could find one but can’t stomach the SE risk given the ‘hope not to die’ motivation. Incidentally, I was a former owner of a lovely DA 40 and could not have enjoyed it more. I was also a renter in a DA 40 when the now-known Austro turbo tubing failure occurred at 4K ft and I was able to recover and land safelyScottOHare wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:29 pm Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY?
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
You are very fortunate - two different failures of the "ultra reliable" Austro engine with successful outcomes.Mdm0515 wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:47 pmIt was in NY - IMC engine failure during training flight with CFI on board who magnificently controlled the ATC-guided descent to a happy outcome on a runway. However, Diamond communications on this and numerous other Austro engine failures are poor at best. EG., why did Blue Line training flight DA40 go down in NC a year or so ago? Way too many failures now to call any of them anomalistic. Brand value decreases exponentially when known failures are not diagnosed and communicated by the manufacturer. I personally would never own a Diamond Austro single again. Would happily buy a 42 or 62 if I could find one but can’t stomach the SE risk given the ‘hope not to die’ motivation. Incidentally, I was a former owner of a lovely DA 40 and could not have enjoyed it more. I was also a renter in a DA 40 when the now-known Austro turbo tubing failure occurred at 4K ft and I was able to recover and land safelyScottOHare wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:29 pm Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY?
I'm waiting for ultraturtle to weigh in and remind everyone how the Austro is close to the PT-6 in reliability and the IO-360 fails every 1100 hours. BTW, my neighbors DA40-180 just passed 4000 hours on the original engine. One mag failure stranded him briefly in SD - but a local mechanic had parts and got him back flying. Wonder if the same mechanic could have fixed a DA40NG.
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Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Thank goodness for the fortunate outcome. “An Austo has close to PT-6 reliability and the IO-360 fails every 1100 hours?”. What are the references for those statements? Any engine can fail, and we fly accordingly, but I thought most IO-360’s made it to TBO and beyond with little if any trouble. There certainly aren’t a lot of IO-360 M1A engine failure accident reports in the US.