A Singapore Airlines Airbus jet lost power on all of its engines mid-flight (dropped 13,000 feet)

Yahoo ^ | 5/27/15 | Benjamin Zhang

[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.

[dinodino]

Beats me.

[MV=PY]

"Which is why I always try and make my air travel on single engine airplanes. With two, you are twice as likely to lose an engine. "

LOL! Well done.

[BwanaNdege]

Yes, but how are their seat cleaning people?

Best in the industry, IIRC.

Oh, pardon me. I'm a little slow catching on there.

All departing passengers were issued complimentary "Depends" and a little Pine Tree air freshener to hang on a belt loop.

[Moonman62]

If it ain’t Boeing, I’m not going!

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A 777 lost power to both engines while landing in London a few years ago.

[Junk Silver]

I’ll take an engine power loss during landing over one at 39,000 feet any day of the week!

[Dustoff45]

“If we lose one more engine, we’ll be up here all day."

Glad you posted this, it was my first thought when reading the article.

[Moonman62]

I feel safe in saying that 100% of pilots would rather have the engine failure at the higher altitude.

[mabarker1]

That’s gonna make them Brake Pads get awful hot before POSSIBLY getting that Bird stopped before being out of Runway.

Reverse Thrust does A LOT of the Braking!

[GreenHornet]

Singapore Airlines Flight 836, flying from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power mid-flight on both of its Rolls-Royce engines.

Over Macho Grande?

[mabarker1]

RE: Your Homepage

[Junk Silver]

“Reverse Thrust does A LOT of the Braking!”

I suppose this is why the airlines never poll passengers on when they would prefer to have both engines lose power. I can see how having a plane that can’t stop could be problematic in a landing situation.

I’ll still go with Boeing. The French make great pastries but I just don’t trust them to build solid airliners.

[mabarker1]

If I still flew it would only on a US made Plane.