Airbus 380 incident

[Egon]

Some information on the recent Qantas Airbus 380 engine failure. Some may be interested.

http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/2888854/ao-2010-089 preliminary report.pdf

 

[Dutch445]

amazing analysis, i'm sure R/R will have their own
report on those failed engine components.

 

[jcliburn]

"...liberated disc..." Lol. Love that term! Kind of like "energetic disassembly" to describe an explosion.

 

[jinman]

Good info Egon. I think the crew did a good job of flying that airplane and getting it safely back onto the ground.

 

[Egon]

What really amazes me is the difference in the "Fly By Wire systems" of the new aircraft and say a Tiger Moth!

 

[westcliffe01]

It sounds like they sustained quite a lot of damage at a very low critical altitude with full fuel and lived to tell the tale. It says a lot for the redundancy of the systems and their understanding about what was damaged and what could not be deployed on landing. I have to guess that the outboard portion of that wing is toast. Must be a very expensive fix. If you compare back to the DC10 incident where the loss of the tail engine took out all the hydraulic controls, things have come a ways...

 

[MossRoad]

What really amazes me is the difference in the "Fly By Wire systems" of the new aircraft and say a Tiger Moth!

Fly by wire just scares the bajeebers out of me. So do cars with no throttle cable. Just ask Toyota!

 

[Egon]

Fly by wire just scares the bajeebers out of me

What; you would turn down a ride in a well maintained Tiger Moth? Could you be enticed with a leather jacket, leather helmet, goggles and a silk scarf that will trail in the wind?:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

What; you would turn down a ride in a well maintained Tiger Moth? Could you be enticed with a leather jacket, leather helmet, goggles and a silk scarf that will trail in the wind?:thumbsup::thumbsup:

I think you are mistaking fly by wire with fly by cable. :laughing: I have been in fly by cable planes many times and would never turn down the ride. :thumbsup:

Fly by wire... no direct connection between pilot's hand and control surfaces make me cringe. Of course, the control surfaces are too large for the pilot to move them anyway if there was a direct connection. So, the computer controls it. And, since I make my living with computers, I know that they never ever fail.... :dance1:

 

[nebraskasparks]

Being at the flight controls when a turbine decides to go "Unbalanced" in some form or fashion is a real thrill. Not only do you get all the "bells and whistles" as we call them but you can also get a flight deck that is vibrating so bad that you can't read the instruments....
Kind of like a washing machine that has all the clothes attached to one side of the drum except its spinning a heck of a lot faster than a washing machine.
These large engines also pose a big logistics problem for repair. We had a B-777 that lost an engine in Delhi...had to hire the Russians that had an airplane big enough to bring a new engine in and haul the old one out. The RR engine on the 777 has a bigger circumference than the old B-727 fuselage!
Simulator training has come such a long distance these days that episodes like this can be "simulated" which gives pilots the advantage of having experienced such things on the ground.