The FAA confirms that United United Flight 328 that was flying from Denver to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu right-engine failure shortly after takeoff.
There is something that I don't understand: when these things happen, the normal procedure is to shut the engine off, instead of keeping it struggling all time long. After all, if those twin-engined propeller planes from the 1930s (DC-3, Curtiss Commando,...) could already take off and fly on just one of their engines, why couldn't do it a modern airliner like this? Pilot mistake or was the engine damaged so bad that they couldn't switch it off? It was a miracle that vibrations didn't go to worse, which could have probably had fatal structural consequences for the joint points of the engine to the wing.
Listen to the audio as the pilots spoke with ATC. They sounded like the recording on a subway train announcing that Park Square Station was the next stop. So calm. I have a lot of respect for those pilots and the cabin crew. True professionals.
So glad this landed safely. Just imagine looking out of the window and seeing that engine on fire 700 miles out over the pacific ! Jesus. Respect for the pilots for a safe landing.
I hope there might be some mechanism onboard in such scenario to disconnect the fuel supply to that part...any body can explain to me if such system is in place? Thank you
Yes there is. It is a called a Fire Engine checklist: Fire Engine Checklist 1. A/T ARM switch - affected side - confirm off (so damaged engine doesn't spool up). 2. Thrust lever - affected side - confirm idle for damaged engine (to cut off power to damaged engine). 3. FUEL CONTROL switch - affected side - confirm CUTOFF (to stop fuel going to damaged engine). 4. Engine Fire Switch - affected side- confirm Pull (cuts off hydraulics on damaged engine side). 5. If the FIRE ENG message stays shown: Engine fire switch - affected side - rotate to stop and hold for 1 second (extinguish detergent released into damaged turbine). If after 30 second the FIRE ENG message stays shown: Engine fire switch- affected side - Rotate to the other stop and hold for 1 second (to release 2nd fire extinguisher into turbine). ******************************************* 6. APU selector - if APU available - START, then ON 7. Transponder mode selector - TA ONLY 8. Plane to land at nearest suitable airport. 9. Do not accomplish the following checklist: AUTOTHROTTLE
Because 777 is pretty new airplane, I'm quite interested, what engines did it have. Was it GE or RR ... This may help a lot for future decisions which flight to take or skip.. .
@brad coddington True, my mistake. Engine was pretty old and so was a plane. This one should have been decomissioned few years ago (imo after 20yrs of service)
Correct. It's easier to lease the engine from a known and certified supplier than it is to have a massive stockpile of parts and tools. A lot of things are just cheaper done that way. Avionics are another piece of equipment that is easier to just pull the black box and swap with a new one from the supplier. Saves time and money for both the carrier and the passenger.
Nobody would have survived this flight had I been onboard because I would have been shittin’ so violently the passengers would have died from the smell in the cabin!
United, United....you broke my Boeing aircraft. United, United....some big help you are. You broke it, you should fix it You're liable, just admit it I should've flown with someone else Or gone by car 'Cause United breaks aircrafts. @sonsofmaxwell
(قُلْ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَنَا هُوَ مَوْلَانَا ۚ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ) Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is our protector": and on Allah let the Believers put their trust.
@brad coddington True but since it would take more time to land at an airport the more risk something else happens. Luckily they didn’t get far before it happened and landed back at Denver.
@Walter H Villalta lol there’s more than a lifetime’s worth of NTSB reports on every airplane crash ever reported. Even as a DJI drone remote pilot, FAA rules state that I am still supposed to report any crash of my drone involving property damage or personal injury. How much more open could they possibly get?
@mayvb49 I thought this being the case. However having worked 7 years on airport ground crew, eer...lets not name any names.. Let me put it this way. There is public spectacle and company inside spectacle. People who do airplanes tend to have poor sense of humor. Or no humor at all.
If you are too serious, I'll explain. This sentence was from a youtuber called Lucaas, he makes a series of aviation stuff with a famous line "Luckily, no one was injured" to report the incidents
Never discount luck, but had their luck been better it wouldn’t have happened at all. The real hero’s are the pilots and crew that safely landed the plane with no issues, not lucky, but rather incredibly skilled, trained professionals.
Once I flew with Lufthansa .. Just when about departing, crew announced a fuel pump issue and repair would take 2 hours, everyone was 'Ohhh No..' Crew then quickly announced that they will start serving free flow wine, and we all were like 'Woohooo !!', and nobody cares for the fuel pump issue.
Big shout out to the maintenance Crews that maintain these aircraft. If they don't do their job correctly the Pilot's cannot do their job correctly. Big shout out to the Boeing Engineers who designed the aircraft in case of a failure like this where the airplane can continue to fly.
@OhioExPax15 Agreed, though I would say JAL 123 and United 232 are great examples of how difficult it is to control a plane with a total loss of hydraulics. JAL123 had the increased difficulty of having no vertical stabilizer on top of no hydraulics. It is admirable how long that crew managed to keep that plane in the air under those conditions.
@Ituhata maybe not the best example, but Japan Air Lines flight 123 in 1985 stayed airborne for 30 minutes, after it's tail ripped off the aircraft. Years ago, an Aloha 737 lost the front third of the fuselage, but still landed safely in Honolulu. These planes aren't built with Kleenex and spit.
A Boeing 777 has the capability to fly on one engine. With ETOPS (Extended Operations) capability, it's more than likely that the aircraft, one over the Pacific, could have safely diverted to Los Angeles, San Francisco, or if it were close enough, Honolulu. The #1 Engine was shut down, and can fly safely on #2. Either way, it's far more likely the same result would have taken place, only at another airport.
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Might have been a Bird Strike on take off. These GE 90 Turbofan engines have been very reliable over the years. I work on these 777 aircraft since they came out about 25 years ago. They are very reliable and safe aircraft.
Too many college kids cheating their way through school with all of this access to the internet. They’re not actually learning how to build an airplane?
@Andre P Aircraft are different than automobiles they have many engine manufactures to choose from same goes with heavy trucks. So its the engine manufactures job to repair engines and has nothing to do with Boeing. P&W RR GE are the major jet engine manufactures and they are the ones responsible for the engines not Boeing. RR had a very big issues with the trent 1000 I believe was the engine model a few years back causing the Boeing 787 that had them installed to be grounded but the Boeing 787s that didnt have that same engine installed on them were ok to fly it was RR responsibility to solve the engine issues not Boeing and they were just caught in the middle of a bad situation.
@Andre P No you idiot. Boeing does not make engines they make planes. You can't blame Boeing for a mistake the engine manufacturer made or whoever worked on the engine.
@Miguel Barrero not entirely correct, your logic, Miguel: If you car/truck breaks down, you take it back to the car/truck dealer (of that make)....and when the service manager says, it's not our (make's) problem, the busted part is made by XYZ, call them....you'll likely not say 'oh, well....let me take it up with XYZ Corp. ;-)
I watched this happened right in front of me. I was riding my bicycle and saw the plane westbound. It started trailing smoke and then flames. As it made 180° turn and headed back east directly overhead the engine exploded and there was a large boom and puff of smoke. I literally thought I might watch it crash right in front of me. Truly frightening to witness.
@CDA SKIER Its not a bad idea to call 911 anyways. If for some reason the communications are cut between the pilots and ATC, that call could potentially help a lot.
I love to fly, and I'm not afraid to get on a plane. But I have nightmares, not about being in a plane crash, but watching one happen in front of my eyes.
We lost an engine on our return trip a number of years ago from Honolulu to Oakland. We weren't far out of HNL and it was very scary. But we had a deadheading pilot in the seat behind us. He told us that this kind of thing is what they train for and he appeared not to be concerned at all. That made it better for those of us sitting within earshot. We got back safely and they rounded up another plane & crew and gave everyone free round trip tix for another flight. That's one of the years we were on the airpass and I'm guessing we probably went over 15 times that year.
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