QF144 Auckland to Sydney engine out
We all have one common goal: to reassure the public that flying is safe. Unfortunately, those effects are being diminished by the constant circus show and tomfoolery that the media displays. Perhaps we should all start a movement, directed at the media, to do a similar act of what the French did to their royal family!
It went into quite a bit of depth, even criticizing the use of the term 'tarmac' for everything not grass at an airport. Of course, the majority of major airports have concrete runways, taxiways and aprons and tarmac is a road surface material.
Perhaps someone should set up a website, a la 'Media Watch' that highlights errors in the media v.v. aviation.
Lots of material. If anyone has time, look at the occasional article (space filler) in Traveler and other newspaper travel sections that occasionally rehash articles about various aspects of aviation. Not one of them seems to have even the benefit of looking at wikipedia, let alone even bothering to do a nanosecond of research, with very, very basic errors.
I have been told that the failure was the quill shaft which drives the accessory gear box which is one of those failures that you don’t hear discussed as a possibility. Fairly instant way of winding an engine down.
And while we’re at it….there’s often a difference between an engine failure and an engine shutdown. The “lost” engine may have failed or it may not but it doesn’t have to “fail” to be shutdown.
That never used to be the case, but some of the absolute drones and Dunning-Kruger case-studies in positions now it wouldn't surprise me. Even if they get wedged and look like having to take responsibility, they trot out all the weasel word 'reaching out' nonsense and 'resetting expectations, going forward, so they can 'celebrate' success'.
