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No one (other than the media, which I already stated I tend to ignore)assumed a drama, just some pointing out, quite rightly in my opinion, that an engine shut down is not a non-event, no matter how common it is. It is an MOR event is is treated seriously by the CAA, your company and, I should hope, yourself.
It is only because crews treat them seriously that they are usually well handled without subsequent incident.
Flippant "no big deal" remarks mean nothing. I wonder how much of a non-event you'll think it is when it happens to you. Hopefully we'll never find out.
It is only because crews treat them seriously that they are usually well handled without subsequent incident.
Flippant "no big deal" remarks mean nothing. I wonder how much of a non-event you'll think it is when it happens to you. Hopefully we'll never find out.
Shut down an engine when you only started with two? That would be a land ASAP then? So it is quite a big deal really then, isn't it?
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I think we are getting muddled up with words!!
Shut down an engine in flight and your are declaring a pan, or even possibly a mayday (depending on conditions). So you have an 'issue'! If its well executed by the crew then there is no drama!! However, a single engine approach will usually require fire services in attendance, and is referred to on the ground as an 'emergency' landing.
If its handled well by the crew then again there will be no drama, but the fact that there was an 'emergency' landing still remains. So yes there was an issue, and yes the CAA will be wanting a report!!
There you go chaps, we shall continue our literature the same time next week.......
P.s. You can find more non-drama events here:
www.aaib.gov.uk
I am sure you will be surprised how many 'non-events' warrant a full report!
Shut down an engine in flight and your are declaring a pan, or even possibly a mayday (depending on conditions). So you have an 'issue'! If its well executed by the crew then there is no drama!! However, a single engine approach will usually require fire services in attendance, and is referred to on the ground as an 'emergency' landing.
If its handled well by the crew then again there will be no drama, but the fact that there was an 'emergency' landing still remains. So yes there was an issue, and yes the CAA will be wanting a report!!
There you go chaps, we shall continue our literature the same time next week.......
P.s. You can find more non-drama events here:
www.aaib.gov.uk
I am sure you will be surprised how many 'non-events' warrant a full report!
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I was a passenger on this flight, having never experienced such an incident first hand it did feel like a bit of a drama. Saying that, the cabin crew remained calm and did well to put some other passengers at ease. Many were asking questions. I did not realise that G-JECI was a new aircraft, the port side engine looked a little worn and the air intake looked damaged as if debris had been sucked into it.
To fill me with even more confidence, my return flight to Norwich had pushed back from gate 21 only to return to the gate five minutes later. The captain addressed the passengers and said that there was a problem with the aircraft. I was sat in row 3 so I could hear the captain talk to one of the cabin crew over the internal phone system. It sounded like an avionics problem which was apparently fixed by powering down and resetting.
As you can probably tell by my lack of knowledge, I am not a pilot but I will soon be starting lessons to get a private pilots licence
To fill me with even more confidence, my return flight to Norwich had pushed back from gate 21 only to return to the gate five minutes later. The captain addressed the passengers and said that there was a problem with the aircraft. I was sat in row 3 so I could hear the captain talk to one of the cabin crew over the internal phone system. It sounded like an avionics problem which was apparently fixed by powering down and resetting.
As you can probably tell by my lack of knowledge, I am not a pilot but I will soon be starting lessons to get a private pilots licence
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I completely agree that an IFSD in a two engine aircraft is not something to be sniffed at, and if it happened to me I'm certain it would increase the heart rate.
I think we are both having little snipes in areas we both feel passionately about.
I take your point that people shouldn't just brush aside these incidents. Any situation like this represents a reduction in safety and another hole lining up in the Swiss cheese, however these scenarios are planned for and there are procedures in place to prevent further holes lining up. We can rest assured that the AAIB will take these incidents seriously and will fully investigate and hopefully learn all possible lessons. The operator will also be keen to ensure that all lesson are learnt in the interested of passenger confidence.
My little snipe was against the media, who love to dramatise every incident because it helps sell papers and makes a fascinating read. They are portraying a drama and using the fact that fire engines met the aircraft to add effect to their story. Members of the public are unlikely to be aware that it is a completely standard procedure for emergency vehicles to meet arriving aircraft with any number of reported problems. The conclusion that the layman is likely to draw is that the aircraft concerned may have crash landed and that Flybe had a close call on this occasion.
I believe that this kind of reporting destroys public confidence in our industry which is why I’m keen to point out that it was not a drama.
I completely agree that an IFSD in a two engine aircraft is not something to be sniffed at, and if it happened to me I'm certain it would increase the heart rate.
I think we are both having little snipes in areas we both feel passionately about.
I take your point that people shouldn't just brush aside these incidents. Any situation like this represents a reduction in safety and another hole lining up in the Swiss cheese, however these scenarios are planned for and there are procedures in place to prevent further holes lining up. We can rest assured that the AAIB will take these incidents seriously and will fully investigate and hopefully learn all possible lessons. The operator will also be keen to ensure that all lesson are learnt in the interested of passenger confidence.
My little snipe was against the media, who love to dramatise every incident because it helps sell papers and makes a fascinating read. They are portraying a drama and using the fact that fire engines met the aircraft to add effect to their story. Members of the public are unlikely to be aware that it is a completely standard procedure for emergency vehicles to meet arriving aircraft with any number of reported problems. The conclusion that the layman is likely to draw is that the aircraft concerned may have crash landed and that Flybe had a close call on this occasion.
I believe that this kind of reporting destroys public confidence in our industry which is why I’m keen to point out that it was not a drama.
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Strepsils, I've counted to ten! This situation has happened to me, twice. I'm not being flippant when I say it wasn't a drama, twice!
I agree with you however, that it wasn't a "non-event", it was, because something non-standard happened.
There is a big difference between a "drama" and an "event". And I'm just fed up with media portraying situations like this with over-dramatisations, as I'm sure you'll agree. I wasn't having a dig at you, or your opinion.
AdamB31, CI isn't a new airframe, it's been around for at least a year. To put your mind at ease: If the air intake was damaged, something which I doubt, the captain wouldn't have accepted it as fit for flight. If the damage occured while you were airborne the design of the engine is such that any FOD is diverted away from the first stage compressor via a bypass door in the bottom of the engine nacelle. The first stage compressor by the way is about 5 feet inside the nacelle.
To prove this point to you. A mate of mine in a Dash had a birdstrike last week, in MAN. The bird actually missed the prop altogether, what are the chances of that, and hit the lip of the intake. Half of it went outside the engine and bounced of the fuselage, the other half hit the inside of the engine below the compressor and went out of the bypass door. The engineering inspection showed that none of the bird had gone through the compressor and it was released for flight.
As far as your avionic problem. Yep the Dash can be a bit temperamental at times, it's just like a big computer, and all you need to do is effectively reboot/de-power it and 99.9% of the time it works fine!
This situation has happened to me, twice. I'm not being flippant when I say it wasn't a drama, twice!I agree with you however, that it wasn't a "non-event", it was, because something non-standard happened.
There is a big difference between a "drama" and an "event". And I'm just fed up with media portraying situations like this with over-dramatisations, as I'm sure you'll agree. I wasn't having a dig at you, or your opinion.
AdamB31, CI isn't a new airframe, it's been around for at least a year. To put your mind at ease: If the air intake was damaged, something which I doubt, the captain wouldn't have accepted it as fit for flight. If the damage occured while you were airborne the design of the engine is such that any FOD is diverted away from the first stage compressor via a bypass door in the bottom of the engine nacelle. The first stage compressor by the way is about 5 feet inside the nacelle.
To prove this point to you. A mate of mine in a Dash had a birdstrike last week, in MAN. The bird actually missed the prop altogether, what are the chances of that, and hit the lip of the intake. Half of it went outside the engine and bounced of the fuselage, the other half hit the inside of the engine below the compressor and went out of the bypass door. The engineering inspection showed that none of the bird had gone through the compressor and it was released for flight.
As far as your avionic problem. Yep the Dash can be a bit temperamental at times, it's just like a big computer, and all you need to do is effectively reboot/de-power it and 99.9% of the time it works fine!
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As far as your avionic problem. Yep the Dash can be a bit temperamental at times, it's just like a big computer, and all you need to do is effectively reboot/de-power it and 99.9% of the time it works fine!
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Yep, Chesty is talking about the dash - Q400 mind you rather than the similar looking 100/200 or 300. Despite popular public opinion - "its got propellors, how old is it?" - it is a modern aircraft crammed with computers which do pretty much everything except for moving the control surfaces whilst it is being hand flown. On start up these sometimes have little hissy fits due to voltage spikes when switching generators etc and need resetting, generally by pulling and resetting circuit breakers but in extreme cases by depowering the entire aircraft - which can be a little embarrassing on a dark night with a load of passengers on board!
Yep, Chesty is talking about the dash - Q400 mind you rather than the similar looking 100/200 or 300. Despite popular public opinion - "its got propellors, how old is it?" - it is a modern aircraft crammed with computers which do pretty much everything except for moving the control surfaces whilst it is being hand flown. On start up these sometimes have little hissy fits due to voltage spikes when switching generators etc and need resetting, generally by pulling and resetting circuit breakers but in extreme cases by depowering the entire aircraft - which can be a little embarrassing on a dark night with a load of passengers on board!
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Skywave & Chesty - Funnily enough, I agree with you both! That's why I said in both my replies that I was talking about the responses on this thread, not the media articles. We all know they're generally innacurate at best and fantasy at worst.
So we're in agreement then. I think
So we're in agreement then. I think
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Ha ha excrab, I do apologise for not making my sarcasm more clearer.
I was infact pointing out that the Dash sounds very similar to the airbus, requiring the occasional power down to reset umpteen systems!!
Thanks for the reply though....
I was infact pointing out that the Dash sounds very similar to the airbus, requiring the occasional power down to reset umpteen systems!!
Thanks for the reply though....
