Quick Stopped engines

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A question, what is the most common item to be damaged when an engine is quick stopped?
 
Define "quick stopped".
Assuming something like a prop strike, probably the propeller. It may depend on the engine, as well.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2007/november/01/two-dreaded-words
https://www.lycoming.com/content/propeller-ground-strike-or-sudden-stoppage-can-be-dangerous

https://www.avweb.com/ownership/the-prop-strike-sudden-stop/
There is also a measure of anecdotal evidence in the engine accident/incident statistics that engines that have a prop strike/sudden stoppage and owners who did not follow the manufacturer recommendations such as only checking the crankshaft run-out, have a higher incidence of broken cranks or other engine failures a number of flight hours later.
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On Lycomings, the attachment of the accessory drive gear to the crankshaft is a trouble spot after a prop strike.
 
Pride, ego, maybe the man card, definitely the wallet?
 
VH-KBZ-sliced-2.jpg
 
above pic is definitely NOT a quick stop. It was a slow, protracted, agonizing, OMG PLEASE STOP NOW!!!!!!
 
Quick stopped engines? Show me a definition of what that means to an aircraft engine.

What comes to mind is a Seinfeld episode. :)
 
alfadog said:
Whatever did the stopping.
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Actually quite true! In my case, the deer was the most damaged. Got lucky in the fact that the teardown revealed zero damage.
 
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