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Old 16th May 2012, 07:33
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cyclic
 
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I think the emergency lube becomes slightly irrevelant when you have an unsupported shaft loose in the gearbox. Metal was being made hence the chip caption. The only option here is to do what the Captain did. Emergency lube is for loss of oil, not for a catastrophic failure of a gearbox component. EC obviously thought that this would never happen otherwise you wouldn't put both pumps on the same shaft.
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