Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub
Cattle truck, that's a good question. Also, the anecdotal incidence of pilots shutting down perfectly serviceable engines is higher than the accidents stats would suggest. However, there are a number of high profile accidents where this occurred. The various reasons for this type of error are well documented. It would be interesting to know what the FADEC reaction is to one engine malfunctioning when twin engines operate through a common drive. Presumably, if one starts to go offline, the other spools up to compensate to maintain the required power setting? Given earlier comments about fuel feed and the potential for one engine to flame out due to fuel starvation 2 mins before the other what would happen if the 'critical' engine (I.e.first to go on a low fuel ) was operating normally when no 2 went off line?
Thanks Skadi!