A321 Engine Failure Alarm
I have been recently speaking to a pilot who was flying an A321 a chartered flight to Jersy. He is used to flying short haul flights no more than two hour duration. Whylst about 100nm out from land and at about 20,000 ft he heard (what he thought) was the alarm for an engine failure. The only time he had heard this horn sounding was in the simulator for the A321. He went through the appropiate procedures but soon realised that the EICAS was not indicating and engine malfunction. At that point an air hostess entered the cokpit to report she had found a passenger smoking in the toilet. The emergency horn for an engine failure is the same as that for the smoke detectors in the toilets. This incident brought about undue stress and worry on the crew just because a passenger waas smoking in the toilets. Does anybody have any views on the A321's emergency horns?