plane makes emergency landing on calgary street

Flyer said:

Airplane has two fuel tanks in each wing. Each engine has an engine driven pump, backed up by an electric pump.

Neither engine was producing power, or she'd have made it to the airport.

Maxwell seems to have some depth depth of knowledge here too. Another pilot?

Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is the investigator and will prepare the report. They are completely arms length from Transport Canada and Nav Canada. Unlike the crash that killed Jim Prentice, passengers and crew survived, and the airplane is in one piece (roughly) so the final report will be detailed and conclusive. You'd think they could publish it quickly, but it will still be a year.

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X-it said:

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Cdnfireman said:

Wow. Hard for a layman to believe that you could get icing at 15 degrees Celsius. What’s the percentage of light planes like that that still use carburetors instead of fuel injection?

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RGM said:

This happened to me many years ago. I took off if below freezing weather in a skymaster so any water in the fuel drains would be frozen. I climbed up into an inversion and the water melted and flowed down the line and as I continued climbing temps dropped below freezing again and the water in the line froze stopping the front engine. I flew back to the airport on the back engine and when I landed it was above freezing by then and the engine started right up .

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