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Ugh look up QF-72 for an A380 Rolls-Royce engine containment failure...
by touisteur 6y ago
Ugh look up QF-72 for an A380 Rolls-Royce engine containment failure...
- mcdevilkiller 6y agoAre you sure? That was an A330, and a failure on one ADIRU.
- touisteur 6y agoAaaaaah always mixing this and QF-32 :-( sorry. The book by Richard de Crespigny is a must read if you can find it. Great.
- martyvis 6y agoQF-32. (BTW the pilot Richard Champion de Crespigny wrote a fantastic book on the incident. The intensity of going though procedures on an iPad and manuals as alarms were going off, while remembering to just fly the plane, was the thing that most sticks in my mind.
- touisteur 6y agoSorry, right, always mixing up those two. Best lessons from the book for me are: 1- meet the designers, understand the "why"s and not only the descriptive posthoc documentation 2- when you don't trust your instruments, keep following the procedures, checklists, (for this you need an excellent, trained, cold-headed team), and eventually try to reconstruct 'what aircraft you have' 3- trust the automated checklists but not too much! Crosscheck what's asked of you, with what you know of the aircraft. Since you know the 'why's you know the automated checklist system's designers probably never expected an aircraft with that much damage to keep flying... 4- there are no hall-passes for heroes. At the end De Crespigny fails his evaluation (the flight was an evaluation flight, with an instructor on board). All around a great, great book for systems people.