Posted on 09/05/2020 2:21:03 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
spilled beverages being to blame for two Airbus A350 engine-shutdown incidents in January and November. Both led to diversions with one flight operated by Delta Air Lines flight while the other incident’s airline remains unidentified but was possibly an Asiana service. Airbus has now developed a solution to prevent the same unfortunate issues from taking place should liquid spill in the same area. Several months later, on January 21st, a Delta Air Lines A350-900 flying from Detroit to Seoul Incheon, Korea, experienced engine problems. This prompted a diversion just 15 minutes after a drink was spilled. It’s been over half a year since the EASA took action by first declaring the ‘liquid-free zone.’ Now, FlightGlobal is reporting that Airbus has redesigned the vulnerable area – known as the integrated control panel (ICP).
The new ICP is liquid-resistant and designed to avoid the risk to engine systems from liquid-spills in the cockpit. These new ICPs are expected to be mandated by EASA.
(Excerpt) Read more at simpleflying.com ...
If the cabin crew simply had coffee delivered by intravenous drip lines then there’d be no spills.
Sippy Cups. Problem solved.
$320 million and it doesn’t even come with cupholders?
Did they add Cup Holders ? LOL or they should have watched this movie ,Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
the coffe cup in the pci reminds me of a sippy cup
There was a 1964 film called “Fate is the Hunter” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)) that dealt with this exact scenario. Maybe the Airbus engineers should start watching old movies.
If it CAN happen, it WILL happen.
The trick is having the right people around that can think outside the process well enough to be able to come up with those implausibilities.
In my line of work (railway signal systems engineering), we had one guy in particular whom i referred to as ‘King of the Goofy Stuff.’ He would routinely spot combinations of scenarios that the rest of us just shook our heads over.
I usually walked out of his office feeling simultaneously stupid and better-educated than when I entered. By the way, he was raised in the coal fields of Southern Ohio and might have actually completed high school.
As soon as I read the opening line, I had the same thought about the movie “Fate is the Hunter.”
Wally, thanks for the link to the entire movie. If I remember correctly, the paper coffee cups in the movie didn’t have a top.
Here is the cast list from IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058091/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Some of our readers may recall an article we wrote in January regarding spilled beverages being to blame for two Airbus A350 engine-shutdown incidents in January and November. Both led to diversions with one flight operated by Delta Air Lines flight while the other incident’s airline remains unidentified but was possibly an Asiana service. Airbus has now developed a solution to prevent the same unfortunate issues from taking place should liquid spill in the same area.And I thought spilling liquid into my laptop keyboard was bad news!
Dynomite!
I hoped Ted Striker had conquered his drinking problem. Evidently not.
Ummmmm, Airbus might have foreseen spilled vin ordinare, or tea, but coffee?
I think I know who made the coffee.
Ain’t naming names, but I am pinging him...
Those are known as “ stewardesses”.
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