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Kevin1963 was spot on when he made the NASCAR reference. If you've ever seen an Indy car crash you know what I mean. The car disintegrates to keep the driver from 'feeling' the energy. The force of the impact is transferred all over the car. In your nosecone scenario, a plastic one will disintegrate but it will cause less energy from hitting the engine whereas an aluminum one will transfer most of the energy to the engine.
You're doing a great job about asking questions here so keep it up. The way I see it you learned 2 lessons here. The first one is about nose cones and the 2nd one is about preflighting. That means checking your connections to make sure the battery won't come loose. There are a lot of other things to check too, so search for preflight checklists and make it a habit of thoroughly checking everything out before you take off.
Good Luck!
Well what happen was i did check everything before the first flight,i had i rough landing on that one due to deadstick and brung it down to fast but yes i did forget to check it on the second flight..I WILL NEVER MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN!!! From now on checking it on ever flight i make when the landing aint perfect,Bruce yea your right im going to go ahead and replace the spinner with a new one,Pete ill try lol sometimes i forget,Thanks Checkmate,i try not to ask questions that are just plain obvious..but ill keep reading and learning new things best i can,1 thing i have learned well when someone say's there's A hidden message in jingle bell's and turn you speaker's up im not listening to them lol,but thanks everyone for your input's.