Planespotta

Saw this just north of FWA

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peteq

Cardiologist?

jrutt

Danm i knew i should have stayed in school, or at least worked for somebody but Evergreen

Bloodhound

If you see a B1900 cowling in some field about 50 miles East of FWA, let me know.

mmaviator

there is a pond(or lake it you live in Minnesota) exactly like this just south of cle.

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Planespotta

Will do. I should be out there some time over the next few weeks.

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CLRDDIRECT

I'll bite. What's the story?

mmaviator

how are you going to see a cowling in the middle of some field. whats the story......can you find the cowling on a satellite photo on google.

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Bloodhound

I was more or less kidding because it happened 9 years ago and I would think that some farmer found it and/or ran over it with his tractor.

The story is we were flying the 1900 from CLE-FWA. On the descent, felt a slight yaw and we didn't think much about it. A few minutes later, the CA looks out his window and notices the engine cowling blew off. We landed without incident and the last pax says, "hey, you lost a hub cab a while back." We figured everyone would say something because it's pretty obvious what the problem was. Anyway, we determined that one mechanic had started to work on a write-up from our previous flight when another mechanic instructed the him that the write-up was on #2, not #1. So we think he forgot to re-latch the cowling on #1.

... and now you know the rest of the story. Paul Harvey... Good day.

Planespotta

No joy on the cowling, but neat story!

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