Looks like the right engine isn't feathered and with that extra drag already, depending on the load, dropping the the gear and the extra drag may have been too much to keep them in the air single engine.
Note this is a "Super DC-3" with the gear doors so lots more drag as they open.
Heck of a job!
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Buddy of mine use to work on them ..as they flew/fly over u can see the dirty fan,of fuel left and right and behind the engine.......u know what they call that he'd say ...140 oil leaks flying in formation.... lol
My first Commercial Flight (1962) was on a DC3. I was amazed at the oil leakage streaming back on the Wing. Reminds me of a Major I served with in the Air Force. He flew B17's from England over Germany in WW2. He loved their engines, said they leaked a lot of oil, but "hell, he said. They carried a lot of oil".
We fuel those guys all the time including yesterday when that happened, Offshoreman is right they didn`t have time to lower the landing gear as they were losing airspeed too fast and would have stalled out . If you saw how old those planes were you`d never want to fly in one . I think them and desert air are the only ones using them still. Mike Reeve still fly`s but he`s running a Navaho. I got a good chuckle on the rogoff comment LOL
desert air does for sure. See them every fall on the strip
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
He probably was loaded to the gills and in a bad profile when he lost that engine and unable to maintain altitude, much less get any airspeed back. Emergency procedure for single engine calls for flaps and gear retracted because that's the only way to maintain altitude - and when making the kind of turns he needed to get back to a runway, he was right at stall speed - he probably didn't roll out of his turn until he was on short final, and wouldn't have had the time (and altitude) to extend the gear.
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