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Very interesting. It's amazing how the pilots can remain calm in such circumstances. I wonder what they told the passengers. "One of our engines blew up and tw

Very interesting. It's amazing how the pilots can remain calm in such circumstances. I wonder what they told the passengers. "One of our engines blew up and two are not working in full capacity, but don't worry everything is fine". I would also be interested in knowing why the engine blew up in the first place. Seems to me that the ECAM messages were less than helpful sometimes. Which reminded me of how we approach error reporting in the applications that we develop where we report on individual problems and not necessarily relate that to the overall state of the system.

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hugh3 16y ago
I wonder what they told the passengers. "One of our engines blew up and two are not working in full capacity, but don't worry everything is fine". Wonder no longer, there's a video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEJCg9etBg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEJCg9etBg "We do apologise. As I'm sure you're aware, we have a technical issue with our number two engine..." The guy actually did a damn good job of maintaining a calm and reassuring tone; the fact that bits of the engine can be clearly seen sticking through the top of the wing is the only thing that detracts from the everything-is-fine message. He did a much better job than this other Qantas pilot, dealing with a less serious (though more spectacular-looking) engine failure earlier in the year, who let his own stress show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI_5qDrMuK0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI_5qDrMuK0 "...as you can imagine things are a little tense in the cockpit... please be assured we are trained for this situation. Of course it's usually in the simulator but we are trained for it..."
- scorpioxy 16y ago
  Kind of reminds me of how the hostess of a recent flight was telling us how terrible the flight would be. "There's a big storm that we will be flying through. It's going to be a bumpy flight, and we're taking on extra fuel because we might be diverted to another airport. Oh, and I also might have to bump someone off the plane because we're too heavy." My initial thoughts were: "keep that kind of information to yourself. I don't want to know." It was more like a roller-coaster ride rather a flight so she was right, but i still didn't want to know.

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hugh3 16y ago

I wonder what they told the passengers. "One of our engines blew up and two are not working in full capacity, but don't worry everything is fine". Wonder no longer, there's a video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEJCg9etBg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEJCg9etBg "We do apologise. As I'm sure you're aware, we have a technical issue with our number two engine..." The guy actually did a damn good job of maintaining a calm and reassuring tone; the fact that bits of the engine can be clearly seen sticking through the top of the wing is the only thing that detracts from the everything-is-fine message. He did a much better job than this other Qantas pilot, dealing with a less serious (though more spectacular-looking) engine failure earlier in the year, who let his own stress show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI_5qDrMuK0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI_5qDrMuK0 "...as you can imagine things are a little tense in the cockpit... please be assured we are trained for this situation. Of course it's usually in the simulator but we are trained for it..."

scorpioxy 16y ago
Kind of reminds me of how the hostess of a recent flight was telling us how terrible the flight would be. "There's a big storm that we will be flying through. It's going to be a bumpy flight, and we're taking on extra fuel because we might be diverted to another airport. Oh, and I also might have to bump someone off the plane because we're too heavy." My initial thoughts were: "keep that kind of information to yourself. I don't want to know." It was more like a roller-coaster ride rather a flight so she was right, but i still didn't want to know.