Originally Posted by Dejapoo
Happened on the 717 in WA circa 2006? Remember doing your jepp amendments at work?? A few minutes later they realised during the restart a fuel control switch was off.. bloggs or renurpp may clear up my foggy details...
It twasn't me but I do know the captain and he is still shocked to this day that it happened. He was a very prof operator. IIRC all that could be assumed was that the fuel switch was left sitting
on the gate lug and eventually was bumped off an hour or so into the flight. We were reminded that the FCOM said "jiggle it to make sure it is locked on".
There was also the case of the AFM (now that is studying!) taking a swan dive off the coaming panel, bumping off (I think) one of TDRacer's worn-out fuel switches. Switch guards were designed and fitted pronto after that.
