Another thrown prop story happened to a Metroliner out west. Pretty much same results, except with the prop off (which also penetrated rated the cabin lacerating a passengers foot) it bent the engine/cowl seriously upward and bent the wing to a higher angle of attack...instantly the engine flamed out, rolled, and the other engine flamed out, the airplane was in a something like a flat stall, and it would stall any time it was below about 150 kts, but they were directly over an airport, where it was dead sticked in. Phew!

On to tamer events...during a factory tour in San Antonio we were asked if we wanted to see their RD hangar. OK. The PR guy picked up a big stick and we asked what it was for, "rattlesnakes" and proceeded to cut through a field. Inside was a Metroliner with PT6's on it. They didn't bother to certify that because customers didn't like the fact that when a passenger came down the stairs they would walk straight into the prop. That's the sort of "engineering" thinking that sometimes went into their airplanes. Fairchild was also involved in the SAAB SF340 project (that's where the F in SF comes from) but bailed when they thought there wasn't a market for it, so SAAB went it alone. Maybe a good thing.