Is that from a reliable source? I'm hard pressed to explain why they'd have the RAT deployed after an issue with a single engine. I'm wondering if the damaged engine was making strange noises that someone mistook for a RAT?

I have seen a pretty good photo taken by a friend. He mentioned the noise and, from these pages, told him about the RAT being deployed. However, close inspection of the photo does not show any indication of the RAT having been deployed.

I'm wondering if the unusually loud noise reported was the sound of a damaged motor windmilling after ingesting birds?

The RAT is on the right side of the plane aft of the wing and it should be pretty obvious in the photos. I've never seen one deployed in real life and I try to keep it that way. ;)

Wonder what made the noise then? I was indoors and heard a loud noise similar to a radial engined warbird. When I looked out, the 767 had just passed over my house and there were no other aircraft around. I have never heard that noise from a jet airliner before.

Like a Texan/Harvard is exactly how I would describe the sound I heard (from the ground) from an A320 following a bird strike on take off a few years ago.

HD

Thanks for the response-i guess one doesn't notice these things from the ground without the noise alerting you to the fact that something slightly unusual is going on. i found it interesting that my wife who has a sort of interest in aircraft growing up in Cranford working for BA etc said her immediate reaction to the noise was thats not right and people who have an ear tuned from years of exposure to what aircraft sound like at different times immediately notices something out of the ordinary.

By the way going back to the orbiting process and locationwhose control would that have been under , final director or intermediate

Tks
PB

pb.. OK. I can't answer your question as it would be decided by the controllers involved. After departure it should have contacted the intermediate south director, who probably kept it during the "holding". When it commenced approach it would have been transferred to the final director. It was a bit complex as on easterlies south director looks after inbounds and west bound departures too which means the airspace SW of Heathrow can get busy.

https://youtu.be/qGImnv3R-0w

Video here, taken from Sandhurst, aircraft at 4000ft.

As you were, finger trouble, video should be here:

http://https://youtu.be/Ifjs9V7e6AQ

Sorry.

Try another finger!

Hants Eaglet forgot the colon in his first video link. It is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIm...ature=youtu.be

Airbubba ; the FAA did ask boeing if they were RR engines and the Rep replied, "No, I believe on that aircraft, they were a couple of Prats" !

At the risk of missing a pun, I think some of Delta's other B-763's (but not N176DN) have GE engines.