Originally Posted by
gasax
The saving grace in this case was the 30 min emergency system and good decision making by the crew.
Just for clarification, gasax, but the Em Lub system was not 'the saving grace'. cyclic sums it up best in his earlier post:
Originally Posted by
cyclic
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.