FSX World Tour Leg 7 Part A
Dakar, Senegal - Lagos,Nigeria
DRZA - DNMM
Well this leg did not go according to plan. Everything seemed ok. Pre start checks went as planned and we took off and climbed up to our cruising altitude. We turned onto course and started heading for Lagos. Not more than 20 mins had passed when I noticed problems with the engines. The temperature had dropped rapidly in the cyclinder heads and carb air temp had plumited. This caused the engines to begin icing up even though Anti Ice was on.
The engines lost power and the aircraf began to loose air speed and altitude. I made the decision to take the plane down to nearest airfield which at the time was a small town called Kaolack (GOOK).
I turned the aircraft sharpley to line up with the runway but altitude was being lost to fast. We flew low over the town before it became obvious we were not going to make the airport.
We finally brought the aircraft down in a grassland about a mile east of Kaolack where we rolled to a stop.
Upon coming to a stopall engines were cut off and all systems turned off. Looks like some repair work needed now.
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