Air Nelson engine failure??

[Sqwark2000]

There was a sniff of a suggestion that Air Nelson had a donk shut down in flight at Auckland last night about 2030hrs NZDT.

Any more info?

S2K

[shallow gene pool]

Hey S2K what was the outcome of Mt Cook's engine failure in WLG a couple of weeks ago? I only got to read the rather sanitised company briefing.
SGP

[c100driver]

Yes - followed by a visual circuit and re-land, airbourne for less than 10 min.

[shallow gene pool]

Yep got that from the company briefing, did the engine poop itself or was is just "an indicator" light as in the brief?

[Sqwark2000]

Sorry I thought C100's post was in response to the first.

The ATR failure was genuine, with internal damage to blades & vanes etc.

Engine off to Singapore for analysis.

So was there an Air NSN shut down the other night?

S2K

[c100driver]

Yes the respose was with regards to the Air NSN aircraft in AKL.

I heard it was an "uncomanded autofeather" though I dont believe there can be such a beast as to go into autofeather there must be a command from some system to feather!

[Capitaine72]

The uncommanded auto feather can be caused by dirty connections in the electrical propeller sensing system.

[c100driver]

Yes but the feather has been commanded has it not?

It does not matter that the system actually needed to feather or that a fault caused an incorrect feather requirement.

[Old 'Un]

Capitaine/C100: Ah! English. She are a interesting language.