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Pieces of towel cloth in a fuel line killed two men over Connecticut pine woods
Pieces of towel cloth in a fuel line killed two men over Connecticut pine woods
A fragment of ordinary shop towel cloth lodged inside a Cessna 182 fuel line and silenced an engine over the pine woods of Plainville, Connecticut - two men aboard did not survive. How did such a small, mundane piece of cloth end a four-decade racing career and a routine flight in one afternoon?
In this episode, we present the documented account of the September 16, 2017 flight, the subsequent NTSB investigation, and the unanswered question about how shop towel material entered the aircraft fuel system; what the…
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