satyanu28
2nd Jan 2005, 07:12
This is a copy of the letter I sent to a pilot friend in Air India.
Just wanted to recount an interesting experience i had while I flew
to Muscat and back to Chennai.
Apart from the terrible service, mishandling of a technical snag
delay (hydraulic failure at the under carriage), and finally being
offloaded!!, what was really disconcerting was a very disturbing
vibration through out our flight. It came in cycles of 5 seconds and
lasted for about 2 seconds. This was new to me, and I have never
experienced this in my flying experience. On asking a cabin
crew member, he told me that it happens during descent, (and we were cruising!!!)I knew
immediately that he had no idea what he was talking about.
Just as we were approaching Mumbai, I left my seat to get some
water, I over heard a cabin crew member telling others, "just put
everything aside, its really bad". He sounded pretty alarmed. I
assumed it must be weather. The senior cabin crew member, all
composed, told me to get back to my seat quickly. I strapped up for
the bumps. To my surprise there were no clouds, and not a bump, and
a good touch down at Mumbai. During my exit, I saw the Capt.
coming out, and I appreciated the good landing (I couldn't discuss
the vibration, as I was late for my connecting flight) Capt. looked rather tense himself.
I do hope I have imagined more than what was happening, however I do
have a strong bad feeling about this vibration, could you please
explain it to me?
I reached home and told my wife that Air India is going to have some incident soon. sure enough, 2 days later, and emergency landing at Trivandrum...
Could any one please explain what caused this vibration?
Another capt friend told me it could be bad synchronization of the engines, which could lead to resonance causing airframe dissentegration.
explanations please
Satyajit
Just wanted to recount an interesting experience i had while I flew
to Muscat and back to Chennai.
Apart from the terrible service, mishandling of a technical snag
delay (hydraulic failure at the under carriage), and finally being
offloaded!!, what was really disconcerting was a very disturbing
vibration through out our flight. It came in cycles of 5 seconds and
lasted for about 2 seconds. This was new to me, and I have never
experienced this in my flying experience. On asking a cabin
crew member, he told me that it happens during descent, (and we were cruising!!!)I knew
immediately that he had no idea what he was talking about.
Just as we were approaching Mumbai, I left my seat to get some
water, I over heard a cabin crew member telling others, "just put
everything aside, its really bad". He sounded pretty alarmed. I
assumed it must be weather. The senior cabin crew member, all
composed, told me to get back to my seat quickly. I strapped up for
the bumps. To my surprise there were no clouds, and not a bump, and
a good touch down at Mumbai. During my exit, I saw the Capt.
coming out, and I appreciated the good landing (I couldn't discuss
the vibration, as I was late for my connecting flight) Capt. looked rather tense himself.
I do hope I have imagined more than what was happening, however I do
have a strong bad feeling about this vibration, could you please
explain it to me?
I reached home and told my wife that Air India is going to have some incident soon. sure enough, 2 days later, and emergency landing at Trivandrum...
Could any one please explain what caused this vibration?
Another capt friend told me it could be bad synchronization of the engines, which could lead to resonance causing airframe dissentegration.
explanations please
Satyajit