Atlas Air 747-8 inflight engine fire
 

"MAYDAY, MAYDAY" was declared, so that's already a good point for the crew :8

Atlas Air's Boeing cargo plane makes emergency landing after engine malfunction

I thought this looks like compressor stall and multiple surges at first. Not so sure now. Good job gents.

they didn't waste any time to get back on the ground, it seems

FR24: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...859gt#33ac35b1
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....32587ff927.jpg

Looks like a bit more than a simple stall, with bits and pieces falling out of the back!

With such a short hop to SJU they may well have already been below MLW..... One less thing to think about

Was 74Gear onboard?

Not sure about below MLW, "53 tonnes fuel / 5 hours on board" reported by the crew

OEW is roughly 195T
MLW 346T so unless they had more than 100T of payload..

Atlas Air 747-8 engine running a bit hot
 

Looks like something worth returning for... No.2 engine causing the crew to return to Miami.

indeed, I had incorrectly 306T, but that seems to be for the -8I


In the meantime, attached the KMIA Departure comm's for Giant95 filtered out (in .zip as per forum requirements)


Who knows, I've the impression the pilot (on the comm's) is non-native US ... requesting the QNH :)

listen again… He actually said 5 Souls onboard!

Already being discussed here: https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/...gine-fire.html

My first thought, too. Hopefully he does a video anyway.

Wonder how many dead bodies he was carrying as cargo?

If my memory is correct he's at one point asked what the fuel on board equates to and there he mentions 5 hours.

Looks like they were dispensing flares...

indeed, 5 hours was even mentioned twice in the recording:
00:31 about 5 hours of ... fuel on board
00:45 we have 53 tonnes on board
00:50 about 5 hours

GE engine B747F engine fire after takeoff
 

Well handled, the engineering report regarding cause of this failure will be interesting

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/349997

I long for the day when ATC stops distracting crews by asking for hours of fuel. If I’m busy with an emergency, that’s the last thing I’m thinking of.

Surely there’s a table they can be provided that gives them a rough conversion to endurance. Any number I give over the radio is probably going to be an equally rough estimate.

For my (happily few) communications with ATC during situations of great pilot stress, I have found that my response to such questions of: "Cannot Comply" usually redirects ATC to not worry about such details. If they really, really have to know, they'll ask again when my stress level is lessened....