Reply #188: I wouldn't put much stock in witness accounts of the engine noise

[MajorChode]

Few people have actually got to hear what an aircraft sounds like when it's about to auger in, so it would have naturally sounded differently than anything they would have likely heard before. Connell was almost certainly making adjustments to his engine while he was trying to recover. He could have been either throttling up or down and/or adjusting the pitch of the prop shortly before the crash and many recovery procedures dictate such actions.