DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

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Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by TwinStarScott » Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:55 am

Here's a discussion of the two recent King Air accidents in Hawaii & Texas, which includes a good multi-engine review of handling an engine failure during takeoff (filmed at the Nevada County / Grass Valley airport in California, featuring a King Air operated by Cal Fire):

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

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Davestation » Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:31 pm

Karl wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:33 am Hi Colin,

What do you mean by replaced ECU A ?

RPM is measured at 2 sensors and sent to 2 independent computers, trying to understand what caused the problem.
Sounds like a typo because they are only replaced as a unit. Even with two sensors though, they don't seem to be as isolated as they could be - it's not like there are four canon plugs going into the box.

Colin wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:37 am The engine registered overspeed for six tenths of a second, I believe, but it was an insane number (4,600 RPM?), and I don't think it was real.
I'd say that's possible - remember you're only seeing the calculated prop RPM, the crank redline is 3500. Seems like you'd really feel it though...

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Don » Wed May 22, 2019 4:12 pm

I just noticed that all three of the engine shut downs in this thread were the right hand engines. Must be a coincidence?

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Wilfried » Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:15 am

Boatguy wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:03 am
No joy with the video. You Tube says not available.

Can you expand on the symptoms and what choices you had other than shutting it down?
Around 20 min before landing the RH engine started oscillating. The result was an uncontrollable yaw moment.
I decided to shut the engine off. I guess there was no other choice. The short video shows the behavior of the engine after landing. I took it for documentation.

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by BRS » Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:59 am

I can't recall if anyone has had to shut down the Lyc on their DA40. No doubt it has happened but I've not heard of it. But seeing the DA42 having several it's no wonder they put two engines on it. ;-)

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Boatguy » Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:03 am

Wilfried wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:57 pm Just wanted to add my experience to this post...

I was flying VFR into an airfield in Germany when my prop governor decided to give up life. I shut down the RH engine and landed OEI without any problem (beside higher blood pressure and pulse than usual). When I was on the ground I took this video for the maintenance shop.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/xxi2j97A3q0 [/youtube]

Maintenance and MT confirmed the governor defect. Was happy that I was alone and not sitting in a DA40.
No joy with the video. You Tube says not available.

Can you expand on the symptoms and what choices you had other than shutting it down?

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Wilfried » Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:57 pm

Just wanted to add my experience to this post...

I was flying VFR into an airfield in Germany when my prop governor decided to give up life. I shut down the RH engine and landed OEI without any problem (beside higher blood pressure and pulse than usual). When I was on the ground I took this video for the maintenance shop.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/xxi2j97A3q0 [/youtube]

Maintenance and MT confirmed the governor defect. Was happy that I was alone and not sitting in a DA40.

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by Karl » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:33 am

Hi Colin,

What do you mean by replaced ECU A ?

RPM is measured at 2 sensors and sent to 2 independent computers, trying to understand what caused the problem.

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by chili4way » Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:15 pm

Colin, thanks for the additional information! Sounds like the complete story is still developing. Would value additional updates in the future when there's more to tell.

Re: DA42 engine out emergency at KTOA yesterday.

by ememic99 » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:44 am

I could be wrong but I see much more issues like this in Austro than in CD, at least these days.

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