Aerosim King Air down near Orlando Sanford

Yeh I was flying the widgeon there 6 weeks back. My ex-aerosim buddy also has his fingers crossed.
 
When I was teaching there in the early 2000s they used the King Air for the Chinese students who were about to head back to their airlines to get them some turbine time. Sad to hear no one survived.
 
Very Sad. I know a few chinese friends at L3 flight school doing their flight training before heading back to China. Hope it's none of them.
 
I thought I might end up having to ditch in Lake Jesup several times! I always hated doing touch and go's on RWY 31 in Leesburg. All those damn gators sitting at the end of the runway!
 
gocaps16 said:
Heard that the elevator got stuck in-flight. :( Perhaps it snapped?
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I'm not commenting on the accident at all.
The cables running to the elevator go under the floor and there's a couple pulleys. I've had more than one time in a king air where during the control check before takeoff, a cable that is not as tight as it's supposed to be(they do stretch), jump off the pulley and jam between the pulley and the piece the holds the pulley in place. This shouldn't be able to happen in flight with the tension the elevator puts on the cables with air over it. But if you don't catch it pre-takeoff it'll be a bad day.
This can happen to almost any airplane that uses cables and pulleys to the flight controls that is not properly maintained.
 
z987k said:
I'm not commenting on the accident at all.
The cables running to the elevator go under the floor and there's a couple pulleys. I've had more than one time in a king air where during the control check before takeoff, a cable that is not as tight as it's supposed to be(they do stretch), jump off the pulley and jam between the pulley and the piece the holds the pulley in place. This shouldn't be able to happen in flight with the tension the elevator puts on the cables with air over it. But if you don't catch it pre-takeoff it'll be a bad day.
This can happen to almost any airplane that uses cables and pulleys to the flight controls that is not properly maintained.
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No, it really shouldn’t. Any pulley should have a guard on it to prevent this exact thing.
 
z987k said:
Have you seen a CAR 3 airplane? Haha.
That said, no the BE20 doesn't have them under the floorboards. Or at least ours didn't.
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Hm. I can’t think of an airplane I’ve been up close and personal on that didn’t have them on every pulley. Only ones I’ve ever seen jump were the trim pulleys just aft of the aft baggage on the PA32, but those were so jokey half the time the pulleys didn’t spin anyway.
 
Roger Roger said:
Hm. I can’t think of an airplane I’ve been up close and personal on that didn’t have them on every pulley. Only ones I’ve ever seen jump were the trim pulleys just aft of the aft baggage on the PA32, but those were so jokey half the time the pulleys didn’t spin anyway.
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None of the old fabric pipers have them. I've never heard of one jumping unless mx was seriously neglected.
 
When I flew corporate, as a pilot / mechanic, we had a King Air A-100. The elevator cables run under the entry door area and that area is notorious for having cracks. In a high time airplane, everyone steps there and the floor area supports can crack. Found a cracked pulley support post during an inspection, the pulley assembly, under cable tension, was just about ready to separate from the support bracket and go slack. It would have rendered the elevator useless in one direction.
 
Zapphod Beblebrox said:
When I flew corporate, as a pilot / mechanic, we had a King Air A-100. The elevator cables run under the entry door area and that area is notorious for having cracks. In a high time airplane, everyone steps there and the floor area supports can crack. Found a cracked pulley support post during an inspection, the pulley assembly, under cable tension, was just about ready to separate from the support bracket and go slack. It would have rendered the elevator useless in one direction.
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Many of our King Airs have reinforcements in this area for precisely this reason...
 
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