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Submitted By: kjpilling@btclick.com Email List: Yak-List Name: Kevin Pilling
Date: Aug 30 2003
Subject: Catastrophic Air Reservoir Failure Description: After a 7-10 minute warm up the service air bottle suffered a catastrophic failure at the normal 45 bar working pressure. The explosive force fired part of the reservoir bottle out through the lower fuselage destroying the left lower firewall and engine mounting and part up into the fuel tank area lodging itself partway through the fuselage skin. Other parts passed out through the hull leaving holes as their only witnesses. Debris destroyed the throttle linkage forcing the engine to max power which raised the tail bringing the propeller into contact with the ground. Pilot shut down the engine with the mag switches and aircraft came to a rest just 2 metres from the initial point but now in a tail high nose on the ground attitude. Rescuers lowered the aircraft into the correct attitude and pilot vacated... Debris damaged a parked Volvo some 30-40 feet away.
Resevoir14.jpg Internals of rusted bottle Resevoir29.jpg Externals of rusted bottle Resevoir39.jpg General view of consequential damage Resevoir49.jpg General view of consequential damage Resevoir59.jpg General view of consequential damage Resevoir69.jpg Half of bottle lodged above fuel tanks
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