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Looks like no prop strike, although it sure looks like it should have been one.
‘Tis a curiosity. The report said the contact of the bottom of the fuselage on the pavement was the pilot’s warning that the gear had turned loose. But looking at a side view of a Skybolt, I don’t see anything on the belly that would contact the ground before the propeller would hit.
I’m wondering if the gear itself was grinding on the taxiway. Splayed out enough that the weldment at the bottom of the gear (where the tubing connects to the wheel hub) made contact. Or…one of the broken tubes was sticking out at an odd angle.
In any case, a very bad bullet dodged by this airplane owner. Report says he had around 800 hours, HALF of which were in Skybolts. So he had time to develop a feel for what seems right.
Being a long-time Browncoat, this quote comes to mind: “Can know all the math in the ‘verse but take a boat in the air that you don’t love? She’ll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down…tell you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens…”
This one let the pilot know it was hurting in time to save the engine.