I hate that for you. Bad things get worse. It sounds like your what was in your pump froze and when your pto engagage the gears didn't have any where to go but spread and it split the housing open. But I don't see why it didn't tell you as soon as you released your clutch. Maybe the pump was just empty and when the product got into it. It was just to thick and the decel was just too much. Kinda like when a driveline is back lashed and turns into a pretzel. I dunno I'm just bored trying to think. LOL

 

Bailing out of the cold, are we???
Right now, it's much easier to driver down here than it is up north...:lol:
If you can drive up there, you sure can down here...:lol:
Not flying an "AIRBUS", are you???:hellno:
And, is it going near the Hudson River???

 

That happened about 3 hours after I landed in Ft. Lauderdale. If it would have been me, I think we would have been goners, because we were over the ocean.

 

you only fly on the coast line of the atlantic. they would find you. try flying over the pacific or bering sea. don't think they would find you then. it's harder over the open water.

 

Over open water, wave height would also be a factor. The Hudson River is relatively smooth, but try to keep the nose pointed up when there's a wave directly in front of it. Once the windshields are gone, it's going to go down much faster.

 

I dunno - we were pretty far out from the coast. Plus I would think the chance of the plane breaking up on impact would be a heck of a lot higher.

 

Please, just don't test the theory. :eek2: Have fun and shoot some of that 70's North, will ya

 

i've flown from newark to puerto rico many times. you aren't really that far off the coast. now flying to the philippines, that's far off the coast. seen many icebergs below me doing that flight in the winter time.