Skymaster Arctic Circle Ditching.

[Roger]

Great story, and an absolutley great piece of survival flying and ditching. You should certainly write it up in either short story format, or talk to somebody about a book. Make up a couple Eskimo chicks and an igloo, and you could probably pay for the plane.

I would however not jump to any conclusion about oil loss being the cause of the engine failures. It is far to much of a coincidence to have both engines fail that close to each other from a oil problem, especially in a Skymaster. The whole dynamics of the engine compartment temperatures, and subsequent temperature variations encoutered by the oil systems is too diverse to have them both encounter the same error within minutes of each other.

It sounds like plain old fuel starvation which wound down the oil pressure , which cooled down the temps, which then caused some form of noise form the prop once there was no oil pressure in the system. Maybe the big noise was the blade kicking back to feather , and that was caused by it being frozen once the rpm's starting bleeding off.

Regardless, congratulations on getting through it.