On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Ken Welter wrote:

  It was the 3.17 four planet aluminum, the planet bearing went out first and then the aluminum carrier broke up and ground up into shavings that went into the oil and plugged up the oil intake for the engine causing a rotor seizure, I was at 6,000 ft with the tops at 5,000 and a ceiling of 500 below at the time, luckily I was following rivers with the GPS so no big deal making an instrument into the river.

He says that so casually doesn't he?