MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Happened today. He was making a VTOL landing, bounced, and then things went awry from there. Looks like he got out Okay after the airplane was on the ground and was doing some gyrations.
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You would think - remember you have that lift fan that is also spinning. Although it is engine driven, it's putting out a lot of thrust.When in landing mode, isn't the engine supposed to reduce to idle automatically with enough weight on the landing gear?
Looking at it, it could be all sorts of things, probably turn out to be some sensor or system that didnt work or didnt work how it should.You would think - remember you have that lift fan that is also spinning. Although it is engine driven, it's putting out a lot of thrust.
Agree, that's why I hate to speculate. The only thing I would "guess" at is this pilot had an issue and he was trying to troubleshoot before the crash. You also had a belch of white smoke emit from the exhaust as he was descending.Looking at it, it could be all sorts of things, probably turn out to be some sensor or system that didnt work or didnt work how it should.
With 3/4 of my 42 years in aviation being in QC/ QA, even with modern inspection tools and processes like AS9100, you're still going to have things like this happen.So bad manufacturing of the fuel line that wasn't discovered by QC of its manufacturer nor then engine manufacturer's QC upon receiving these parts.