1. Four feet of propeller blade snapped off, investigators said, and the engine cowling began to disintegrate. 2. Examination of the Mossie revealed a mark on a propeller blade that looked like a bird strike. 3. After the accident the Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of propeller blades of the kind that broke, on Embraers and other planes. 4. Gave only genuine expression of heart in cliche-riddled superproduction, whose next most effective performer was the guy who bounced off the propeller blade. 5. Hammerschmidt also said that investigators had found all major components of the aircraft, including the propeller blades, engines, wing flaps, and other systems. 6. He said workers for a maintenance contractor had improperly installed a propeller blade on the plane. 7. In such situations, the propeller blades are supposed to turn from flat-face forward to knife-edge to the wind to reduce drag. 8. One is a lever that adjusts both the throttle and the angle at which the propeller blades dig into the air. 9. The Brazilian made plane was more than three miles high when a propeller blade broke off its left wing causing it to crash. |