Tucano T1 plane wrongly leading to overcooking the turbo during his training stint with air force last year, CNN has reported. This could have damaged the plane but it didn’t happen. Britain’s Daily Mail has repoeted the incident. “He flicked the wrong switch on shutdown and overcooked the turbo,” Watt told the paper. “I think he switched it back on.

It is a variant of Short Tucano T1. The Short Tucano was developed by the British Short Brothers company in order to meet a requirement to replace the Jet Provost as the basic trainer for the RAF, as laid down in Air Staff Target 412. It is an adaptation of the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano fitted with the more powerful 1,100 shp (820 kW) Garrett turboprop engine in place of the EMB-312’s 750 shp (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine, to give higher climb performance.

(AGI) - Londra, 14 apr. - Ha premuto l'interruttore sbagliato e ha mandato in fumo il motore da un milione di sterline del suo aereo. La disavventura e' capitata lo scorso anno al principe William durante le 12 settimane di addestramento da pilota della Royal Air Force. Il primogenito del principe di Galles ha bruciato il motore del suo 'Short Tucano T1', turboelica da addestramento al combattimento derivato da un aereo brasiliano.