AC Plane reports engine problem, lands safely at BDL
 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...-apconnecticut

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- The crew of a small plane traveling from Montreal to Connecticut was forced to turn off one of two engines because instruments indicated a problem, but landed the craft safely at Bradley International Airport Sunday.

The airport's emergency crews were on standby as Air Canada flight 7372 touched down without incident at about 2:40 p.m., airport spokesman John Wallace said. The 19-seat Beech 1900 plane had six people aboard.

I used to fly these babies 80 times a year. If anything like one of the props were not running for whatever reason, I'd $h!te my pants... good to hear everyone is ok.

I refuse to fly on a plane so small that there's nobody to serve drinks :D

Plus a pilot's wife told me once of a girl get stuck in a Beech lav. I didn't even think these things had lavs!

The 18 seater versions do. The 19 seater version replace the lav with the extra seat. There's no sink in the lav so they only have disinfectant(!)/anti-bacterial lotion as the method to wash your hands!

Hmm.. planning to go to BDL mid-June... perhaps I'll stick with the DH1 :)

A mighty fine plane it is.This is from personal experience :eek:

Which one? The Raytheon or the DH1? I would say both. Engine problems are engine problems and both use turboprops, likely with very similar reliability figures. And surely both can fly and land on a single engine, just like twin jets. In this respect, worse planes are four engined-ones. Which have four engines that can fail instead of two, doubling the odds. Plus, while they can fly on three, on two they usually cannot. Case in point: that 747 that crashed in Holland, was it an ElAl freighter?

B747 can fly fine on 2. On 1 it will take to the scene of the accident very quickly.

But in the AMS crash it did not, did it?

My understanding is that the fewer engines there are running, the slower the plane flies. So with 0 engines running, it will take forever to get there.

I assume this B1900 was heading YUL-Hartford?

Virtually all aircraft can fly on no engines (except for the F104). A learned DC9 FO who was also a champion soar plane pilot said the the glide ratio of the DC9 was about the same as the first Schweitzer 222 that he learned to fly.

Didn't the Gimli Glider fly w/o engines for a bit?

Yep, BDL is Hartford's airport in Windsor Locks. (I believe BDL stands for "Bradley" in Hartford-Bradley International.

Agreed.
I've flown BEH's, DH1's, and DH3's extensively on my transborder short-haul travels a couple years back. I enjoy the space I have on the DH's. The BEH's are just brutal and my company owes me for subjecting myself to such constant torture.