Posted on 05/27/2015 12:46:34 PM PDT by jalisco555
Over the weekend, Singapore Airlines Flight 836, flying from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power mid-flight on both of its Rolls-Royce engines.
According to Flightradar 24, the Airbus A330-343 experienced the problem while cruising at 39,000 feet.
The incident, which took place just south of Hong Kong, caused the airliner to descend 13,000 feet before the crew was able to restart the engines.
The Airbus jet — registration number 9V-SSF — landed safely in Shanghai an hour and a half later.
There were 182 passengers and 12 crew members on board the airliner. No injuries were reported.
According to The Aviation Herald, Singapore Airlines confirmed that the A330 "experienced a temporary loss of power" after encountering some bad weather.
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Where all engines are lost the usual procedure I believe is to drop the RAT ( Ram Air Turbine) which provides the power to re-start the engines. Unfortunately most long range airliners cruise at 39,000 Ft.and the RAT doesn't work at that altitude because the air is so thin so they have to descend to a lower altitude before the RAT kicks in. The reason I know something about this is that a BIL of mine was flying co-pilot from Anchorage to Tokyo when all four engines died due to "Engineer error " in fuel management. The Rat was meant to kick in at 18,000 feet, at 13,000 feet they were getting concerned but eventually they got things started. Air crews do train for this.
What in the HELL are you talking about!?
Please put down the bath salts and return to the thread.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
LOL...now, repeat 200 times...
Interesting, thanks for the post.
Could have been hacked. No way it was EMP. Both engines?
If you lose one and then the other, that’s not as weird. Putting it back in the air?
Software issue.
It had to be someone’s cell phone interfering with the electronics.
Loss of power to both engines due to weather.......whilecruising at 39k feet?
Ummmm I don’t think so.
Since no one else has said it:
MUST BE BOOOOSH’S FAULT! That and GLOBAL WARMING!
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That’s nothing. Russian airlines cut the engines on purpose, start ‘em up, cut, start, cut start. Great rollercoaster ride.
I’m pretty sure...I would have recognized we were losing altitude.
what’s the thread about ?
what’s the thread about ?
The passengers had to know something was up, since they must have been using the fan dynamos to keep the batteries charged.
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I took one flight in a US Air error bust from Phoenix to Cabo.
I couldn’t believe how chintzy that plane was.
Never again!
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Do the pilots have to manually switch fuel tanks on Airbus, or does the software do it for them? This has the smell of fuel starvation about it, especially with the report that the airplane was flying again four hours later.
Can you imagine being the pilots in such a situation?
Even with all their training, I bet they hit the johns soon!
It’s about airplanes. I truly have no idea what you mean by, “neutron type software,” nor what that, if it exists, might have to do with airplanes.
More than one FReeper has commented on the possibility of an EMP and I think I meant to say that and said neutron, instead ...,
Geeezzz ... what the hell am I talking about ?
For those not in the industry thats known as a “glitch”.
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