It states so elsewhere in the CAB report. That text and the page number is up thread.azflyer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:43 amDr. Moore, thank you for your response.
I don't agree with this. Please see my detailed flight plan right up in the post above this. Here is the link to the flight plan I believe they would have followed in skyvector.If you map the flight path, they would have been at least 20 miles south of Delta at the time of the engine roughness / failure.
https://skyvector.com/?ll=39.0049561439 ... DTA%20KSGU
Delta VOR is not halfway in miles, but it is the last main marker, and it is, in my opinion, the most likely place to make the 1/2 way announcement. Also, if they were 20 miles south of Delta VOR, they probably would have landed at Fillmore. That would have been the closer airport.
Not true. Nowhere in the report does it say the plane was capable, or should have, continued flying. It says, "Engine was feathered and precautionary landing made at Delta, Utah, per instructions in company manual."CAB report specifically says the plane was fully capable of continuing on to destination or returning to origin, but company policy was to make a precautionary landing at the nearest airport.
When you're flying a twin, and one engine goes out, you land at the closest airport. You don't continue to your destination. This is how people get killed. (side note - twins are safer than singles. But when twins have to make forced landings, they are much more likely to result in death. A twin flying on one engine is MUCH less safe than a single engine plane.)
I completely agree that the point of no return thing is weird. It doesn't make any sense. Not sure what to make of that.
I'm slowly making my way through the thread. There is a lot to read. LOL
I will check your map.