I wonder if any of you ‘out there’have experienced an in flight engine shut down or malfunction in the last 10 or so years?..The reason I enquire is since my retirement and flying as a passenger..no such event has (thankfully)occured!..In the early’gas turbine days’of the 60s it was unusual to go more than a week without an’incident’of some sort and that was with four engines!..Now with ETOPS fully established and should an engine fail,one presumes no information would be given to those in the back for’safety reasons’.?.I would welcome any comment…
By: steve rowell - 23rd September 2004 at 05:33
The engines of today are a lot more technically advanced and reliable than what they were at the beginning of Commercial jet transportation, back in the days of the Prop liners and early jets they happened with regular monotony
By: skycruiser - 23rd September 2004 at 04:05
Aurigny.
By: Duesseldwarf - 22nd September 2004 at 21:40
When I used to fly the SAAB 340, I had one take off where the right engine had a compressor stall. The aircraft yawed violently and sounded like a machine gun going off.
The pax were a little shaken.
Had plenty of engine failures and fires on the 747, but only in the sim!!!
Skycruiser. Who did you fly the SAAB for out of interest?
By: Whiskey Delta - 22nd September 2004 at 14:29
FMS is a navigation system. FADEC’s (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) control engine perameters.
By: ommaroo - 22nd September 2004 at 11:16
Thanks for your interesting replies! Looks like not too much has changed from my early days…but then 1000hrs between o/hs were considered good..Now I believe an engine can remain in situe for over a year!..Metallurgical advances in the turbine area has meant prolonged exposure to high temperatures is no so life limiting as of old!..Compressor ‘stall’should however be a thing of the past with ‘electronic’ engine control in operation during start up..and climb..Flight ‘Management’ System I believe it is now called?Agree about the sim’…the ‘OMC’ switch is still there I presume??
By: wysiwyg - 21st September 2004 at 23:25
I also had an engine problem in a Saab 340 which caused us to turn back to Guernsey. Funnily enough it turned out to be finger trouble on the part of the Captain (who happened to be the chief pilot)! No problems in the B757 or the A340 (yet)!
All commercial aircraft should be able to climb away from a post V1 engine failure (unless they started off as a single engine of course!). In multi engine aeroplanes twins are more seriously affected by engine failure than tri’s which are more affected than quads, etc.
By: Whiskey Delta - 21st September 2004 at 17:27
I’ve only ever had a partial power loss and a fire indication inflight. Both concluded without incident.
By: DME - 21st September 2004 at 17:03
I Imagine all aircraft could take off on the one engine after the other one failed?
I watched a CO 767 take off from GLA on 23, the pilot asked for the run up as well, they were fairly heavy. After he rotated very late and on a very shallow climb out we all said to hell with that if he lost one on the climb out 🙁
scary
By: DashQ - 21st September 2004 at 16:59
When I used to fly the SAAB 340, I had one take off where the right engine had a compressor stall. The aircraft yawed violently and sounded like a machine gun going off.
Ah, can’t have been too good.. engine failure after V1 on take-off.. 😮
Would all aircraft be able to leave the ground before the end of the runway if the same situation occoured just before VR and it was a larger aircraft on a short runway?
By: skycruiser - 21st September 2004 at 15:27
When I used to fly the SAAB 340, I had one take off where the right engine had a compressor stall. The aircraft yawed violently and sounded like a machine gun going off.
The pax were a little shaken.
Had plenty of engine failures and fires on the 747, but only in the sim!!!
By: T5 - 21st September 2004 at 14:42
I personally haven’t (yet).
Someone on the JetPhotos.net forum did talk about a Phuket Air 747-200 in Dubai a couple of months back though. It pushed back for departure, but some of the engines refused to start.
Phuket Air were forced to pay for passengers to fly with alternative airlines, back to Bangkok.
Let’s hope this isn’t the case when I travel with them next year. :rolleyes:
By: danairboy - 21st September 2004 at 11:35
My nanna has. She was with grandpops on an Air India flight from what was then called Bombay bound for LHR. An engine was shut down and the plane landed at Dubai where passengers were put up over night. They then took the same plane on to LHR after a replacement had been fitted. This was in 1983, I think.
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