cessna 208 caravan lands on busy road

[oldncold]

ctv news reporting cessna caravan conducted emergency landing on a busy road in virginia. No injuries 9 pass. but the aircraft damaged.. recovery and repair bill, wont be cheap. Hi-way was closed for several hours. Pilot avoided multiple verl high voltage power lines. Landed smoothly then contacted guardrail on road.

[SpyPilot]

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/car ... a-freeway/

[Sulako]

It only climbed to 800' after departure and landed less than 2 minutes after it took off. Intriguing.

[amphibcaravan]

All propeller blades bent so still making some power, interesting...

[TG]

Icing would be something to look at.

[rookiepilot]

Ice ingested in the engine?

[TG]

Ice ingested in the engine?

I was more thinking about pre-departure top of the wing contamination compounded with maybe some ice collected on the leading edges once moving fast enough.
It's really just a supposition out of many.

[goldeneagle]

All propeller blades bent so still making some power, interesting...

Not sure about that. Blades are feathered, so could have been just windmilling when they hit that fence. the photos I've seen, snow is coming down, top of the wing looks clean, boots look clean. Listening to the ATC recording, they said they had 1100lb of fuel on board.

[rookiepilot]

Ice ingested in the engine?

I was more thinking about pre-departure top of the wing contamination compounded with maybe some ice collected on the leading edges once moving fast enough.
It's really just a supposition out of many.

Yup.
I was curious if the inertial separator was deployed. That’s what it’s called, right?

[BigQ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjUQt0vhSI

[amphibcaravan]

All propeller blades bent so still making some power, interesting...

Not sure about that. Blades are feathered, so could have been just windmilling when they hit that fence. the photos I've seen, snow is coming down, top of the wing looks clean, boots look clean. Listening to the ATC recording, they said they had 1100lb of fuel on board.

From my experience on vans the prop loses momentum in a hurry once the engine has been shut down. I would think it would take a good amount of momentum to bend all three blades the way they are in the pictures. I have no experience with in flight shutdowns though (and here's hoping it stays that way)! I thought this video [YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeYWbNl3ujA[/YouTube] of a total shutdown on a PC12 was interesting, not a whole lot of windmilling there. Different a/c, different prop, different engine of course; but with both being full feathering, pt6 free-turbines I would guess the result would be similar...

Either way, good on the crew to get it on the ground safely in a tricky spot!