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Originally Posted by SGRock
"The aircraft damage resulted from an inadvertent takeoff followed by a hard landing" during a test flight following maintenance on the.
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I fly little planes (Cessna 172s mostly) I can't recall ever having an "inadvertent takeoff". The only thing I can surmise is that someone was ground testing the engines and hit a lever that changed the prop pitch and generated lift and "took off" and then put the pitch back into neutral and fell the 20 feet or whatever back to the ground. Potentially, the could have been a ground maintenance technician and not a pilot, right? Of course, that is contrary to the term "test flight", as is "inadvertent takeoff".
Prop pitch and throttle controls often are grouped close together in my experience. [A Cessna 172 doesn't have variable prop pitch, just a throttle, so things are a lot simpler.]