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Suggest a system that would prevent this, but only this, without causing other risks.
by jeffbee 1y ago
Suggest a system that would prevent this, but only this, without causing other risks.
- emmelaich 1y agoAt least an audible alert.
- anonzzzies 1y agoExactly
- wezdog1 1y agoYeah that would have completed prevented this scenario /s
- MaKey 1y agoAnother comment mentioned that with an Airbus you first have to move the thrust lever to idle before you're able to cutoff the fuel.
- jeffbee 1y agoThat seems sensible and relatively easy to implement without screwing it up.
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- bob1029 1y agoDisable the fuel system cutoff controls during the takeoff climb phase of flight. Once the aircraft loses contact with the runway, these controls shouldn't function without tripping certain thresholds (speed & altitude), or following a two-man procedure that is physically impossible to execute solo. In any other flight regime, the controls function as originally designed. The danger of a burning engine is irrelevant if you are heading into terrain.
- ExoticPearTree 1y ago> The danger of a burning engine is irrelevant if you are heading into terrain. Not quite. When you hit the ground you do not want any fuel leaks or hot surfaces as much as possible. That is why for example engines are shutdown when doing an emergency belly landing, to try abd prevent the airplane from bursting into flames.
- ufmace 1y agoI don't think so. A moderately hard landing with an engine(s) smoldering because they were on fire but had their fuel cut off is probably survivable for most of the passengers. A moderately hard landing with the engine(s) a raging inferno pouring burning fuel all over the place because the fuel couldn't be cut off or took too long to do so is much less survivable. Putting complex and fallible restrictions on safety-critical controls like fuel cutoff is usually a bad idea overall.
- dboreham 1y agoSounds good, but I'm not sure I trust Boeing outsourced software developers to implement that absolutely correctly.
- yongjik 1y agoNow you created a fuel system cutoff control inhibition system which may malfunction in its own ways, e.g., refuse to cut off fuels from a burning engine because it thinks the plane is too low due to faulty altimeter reading.