You say you were hit by a plane? Sorry but your policy doesn't cover collisions with aircraft.
The front of your Van is smashed? You rear-ended a plane!
Why were you driving on an airports' runway?
No, I was on the road!
From PPRuNe
"Information released today 06th...
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On Feb 6th 2015 Taiwan's ASC reported that the investigation so far determined from flight data and cockpit voice recorders: the aircraft received takeoff clearance at 10:51Z, in the initial climb the aircraft was handed off to departure at 10:52:33Z. At 10:52:38Z a master warning activated, at 10:52:43Z the left hand engine was throttled back and at 10:53:00Z the crew began to discuss engine #1 had stalled. At 10:53:06Z the right hand engine (engine #2) auto-feathered. At 10:53:12Z a first stall warning occured and ceased at 10:53:18Z. At 10:53:19Z the crew discussed that engine #1 had already feathered, the fuel supply had already been cut to the engine and decided to attempt a restart of engine #1. Two seconds later another stall warning activated. At 10:53:34Z the crew radioed "Mayday! Mayday! Engine flame out!", multiple attempts to restart the engines followed to no avail. At 10:54:34Z a second master warning activated, 0.4 seconds later both recorders stopped recording.
unquote"
To summarize,
Engine number 2 (right) failed.
Pilots shut down engine number 1 (left).
They shut down the WRONG engine and were unable to restart it.
http://rt.com/news/229915-taiwan-plane-pilots-engine/
D:
Once the props have been feathered on an engine, can they be un-feathered? That is, if the automatic systems detect an engine failure and feather the props, is there any sense in attempting to restart that engine?
From PPRuNe
"Information released today 06th...
quote
On Feb 6th 2015 Taiwan's ASC reported that the investigation so far determined from flight data and cockpit voice recorders: the aircraft received takeoff clearance at 10:51Z, in the initial climb the aircraft was handed off to departure at 10:52:33Z. At 10:52:38Z a master warning activated, at 10:52:43Z the left hand engine was throttled back and at 10:53:00Z the crew began to discuss engine #1 had stalled. At 10:53:06Z the right hand engine (engine #2) auto-feathered. At 10:53:12Z a first stall warning occured and ceased at 10:53:18Z. At 10:53:19Z the crew discussed that engine #1 had already feathered, the fuel supply had already been cut to the engine and decided to attempt a restart of engine #1. Two seconds later another stall warning activated. At 10:53:34Z the crew radioed "Mayday! Mayday! Engine flame out!", multiple attempts to restart the engines followed to no avail. At 10:54:34Z a second master warning activated, 0.4 seconds later both recorders stopped recording.
unquote"
To summarize,
Engine number 2 (right) failed.
Pilots shut down engine number 1 (left).
They shut down the WRONG engine and were unable to restart it.
http://rt.com/news/229915-taiwan-plane-pilots-engine/
D:
So sad, if that is the case, it has happened before - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster
Way too many accidents of late due to pilot error.
Stopped reading."The flight crew stepped on the accelerator of engine 2 [righthand side]... The engine was still operating, but neither engine produced power."
Started to read RT article. Ran into this.
Stopped reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQWJai59lo
They weren't going to recover from that angle and sink rate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQWJai59lo
They weren't going to recover from that angle and sink rate.
I'm sorry but no. There was no need to be in that situation. That's like praising the crew of the Korean airlines crash in California for keeping the plane upright.
If, indeed, the news coverage within the first 48 hours after the crash told the whole story and there's nothing more to learn. You can be sure that many people will be spending countless hours in the months to come evaluating exactly what happened, but you've already come to a conclusion.
"Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle."
These are the words of the captain of TransAsia Airways Flight GE235, eight seconds before the plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a Taiwanese river mere minutes after takeoff, killing 43 people on board.
The latest report by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council into the February crash confirms that the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power.
The report also showed that the captain had failed simulator training less than a year earlier, partly because he had demonstrated a lack of knowledge of how to respond to engine flameout at takeoff.