Cessna Caravan Dead stick landing

Hmm. That's the caravan which belongs to a dropzone near my parent's house. I also recognized the airport. I know there's a JC member who used to fly for them, I wonder if he knows what the heck happened!?
 
Seems like a lot of these coming down via gravity, despite the "bullet proof engine". Wonder if he ran out of fuel?
 
That last 90 degree turn- gustiest move I ever saw, Mav. :sarcasm:

Engine failure, fuel quantity failure or just attempting a dead stick approach?
 
Intresting. It doesn't seem like it was planned to me. If it were planned he did a pretty crappy job with the low, flat, skidding turn onto the runway, but if not planned and an actual emergency - nice job!
 
I got some inside info and apparently they had a catastrophic engine failure at 11,000 feet. The hot section was damaged so badly it wasn't rebuildable.
 
Took a pair to make that last turn. Proves that you can run out of options fast being too high near the field.
 
Yeah, CT Disc came apart at altitude. Not fuel starvation. Guy did a good job dead sticking it in, though. Very good piloting there. Pilot said that when he was on the right base, he started the turn in but knew he'd be high and fast, so he decided to blow through final, hard right back towards the runway, now he's ver the numbers, starting to trade airspeed for altitude, and as the left main touched down, hard left rudder about as he ran out of elevator authority. In a van, empty, with little less than 300lbs of fuel left, your CG is way forward, and you can't keep the nose up until stall warning. I learned that the hard way a few times, that I'd run out of yoke-pull before I got any stall warning. P&W said the vane in the CT Disc came apart to whatever happens in metallurgy when a metal is continuously overheated to the point of failure.
 
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