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GoAir A320 crew shut down wrong engine after birdstrike
Indian investigators have disclosed that the crew of a GoAir Airbus A320 shut down the wrong engine after experiencing powerplant vibrations following a birdstrike on take-off. (www.flightglobal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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in a prop twin losing an engine you have deadfoot, dead engine. Here, dead brain, flown by glider pilots. No way to fabricate any kind of excuse or explaination. The engine instruments are smack dab in the middle of the instrument panel, available for proper interpretation by any competent pilot sitting up front. So close to a crash caused by pilot error....
This sounds like British Midlands flight 92. They also shut down the wrong engine only good thing here is these pilots didn’t crash. I also praise the crew of British midlands flight 92 as they noticed the issue and tried to restart the good engine and at least got over the motorway.
But wasn't (a significant) part of the issue that the Crew on 92 had a lot of time in 73x's but almost none in the 734 which was new to BMI, and Boeing had changed the flight deck air feed so when it started to feed smoke they shut down the engine which fed the flight deck air in the previous models they had all their time in. And metal fatigue in a very low time fan blade, which initiated the entire incident, also didn't help.
From what I heard it Boeing changed the cockpit design as well as the vibration gauges and also the ac ran off the right hand engine in the 300’s and in the 400’s both engines powered it. That with cockpit training and not enough training in the aircraft contributied to the accident.
Thanks for reply. My impression was also time/training in 300, not 400 was one of the contributing factors, but primary factor was still a very low-time blade breaking on a new a/c. To get back to the cockpit/airflows (as you just explained), it seems to me that extensive crew prior experience of systems in the 300 meant when they got smoke from the vents they assumed it must be coming from the right, so, (as they didn't know it was now fed from both sides), they naturally shut down the right engine.