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A short recreation of the Rex propeller separation event last Friday, based on actual ATC transmissions, and archive footage of Rex aircraft at Sydney.
Images of the actual aircraft (VH-NRX) after the event are included at the end of the video. Youtube Video
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I just noticed that Ben Sandilands (in his "Plane Talking" blog) is advising that Rex broke air safety rules by feathering the prop after noticing a malfunction and then flew from Canberra at 8000 feet.
https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetal...7/03/20/62116/ However on FR24 the aircraft is seen to be flying at FL17 nearly all the way to Sydney before beginning a seemingly normal descent. The mystery deepens... |
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So was the engine shutdown just past Canberra or has crikey got it very wrong??
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Hi Stephen
Well if FR24 is correct then REX768 reached FL17 just before Tumut and started descent from this altitude west of RIVET, so well past Canberra. I would have to say Crikey has got it wrong at least re the altitude, or have different source. Cheer Mark |
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The propeller from the plane has apparently been found by police.
It was found in bushland off the River Road in Revesby, so a bit closer to YSSY than originally thought. Cheers M |
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Confirmed found in the bush land between The River Road and Sandakan Road - some 700-900 metres left of track.
Winds from the south would've played a part in it's final location. http://www.9news.com.au/national/201...ydney-bushland http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2...ydney-bushland
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The Rex propeller was found in the position I calculated in my Tweet at 6:05pm last Friday evening.
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Not quite, your dot is over Alford's Point Rd, River Rd begins left of the indicated flight path which I suspect is a mapping error, as I don't think there would have been too much lateral travel on the props flight path. Unless the River Rd reference is wrong?
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Give him a little slack Mark! Pretty darn close.
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