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Anyone have any knowledge of what would have happened had he successfully pulled the fire extinguisher handles? I have to imagine it would still be recoverable?
by bandyaboot 3y ago
Anyone have any knowledge of what would have happened had he successfully pulled the fire extinguisher handles? I have to imagine it would still be recoverable? Though I do understand that you’d be having to deal with recovering the engines at the same time as dealing with a hostile individual in the cockpit.
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- oh_sigh 3y agoDepends what stage of flight they were in. The engines will shut off as the extinguishing system is activated, so if they were shortly after takeoff, they might not have enough time or enough energy to do an emergency landing back at the airport.
- bombcar 3y agoIn a worst-case scenario, your plane becomes a glider (see some famous fuel-starvation incidents which result in flare-out). I suspect the jets have restart procedures available and can "flush" the fire extinguisher "juice" out.
- aschobel 3y agoAt FL360 (36,000') the plane has a glide ratio of 20:1; so they would have been able to glide 136 miles.
- hmaxwell 3y agothe only problem is that if there is no running jet engine, there is no more oxygen (produced from bleed air) and the oxygen masks last for 10-20 minutes...
- mmart 3y agoThe APU would still be able, to an extent, to provide pressurisation even if both engines are disabled.
- bandyaboot 3y agoI would guess that the cockpit has a longer supply and perhaps they could descend faster to a safely survivable altitude. You’ll be able to pick up speed doing so and so a lot of that energy for gliding is still available, though some extra would be wasted due to the higher speed and longer time spent in higher pressure atmosphere.
- SoftTalker 3y agoAccording to discussion about this on avherald.com, yes the engine can be restarted after the fire suppression handle is reset. https://avherald.com/h?article=510218dd&opt=0 https://avherald.com/h?article=510218dd&opt=0