Emergency at Newark

[Crucianpilot]

Airport was closed for about an hour this morning because of an emergency aircraft. Turned out to be a United Airbus that had just departed and had some sort of electrical problem. They lost all comm and from what I was able to see while waiting to depart on 22r, looks like the main gear doors were hanging down and little or no flaps were deployed. Regardless, the crew did a great job and got the a/c back on the ground. A tug towed them off the runway to the gate. Anyone else heard what happened to the a/c.

 

[WickedPissa]

A Baby Ruth was spotted in the lav.

 

[El Pobre]

If you don't really know what happened, how do you know that the crew did a really good job. Maybe they really screwed it up... Maybe a crew error caused the whole problem...Maybe it was asses and elbows up there and they really dorked the situation up. Who knows, I don't and you don't either....I'm just glad no one appears to have been hurt.

 

[Hung Start]

I consider getting a clearance to/from Newark an emergency situation.

Hung

 

[El Pobre]

Hung,

That is funny!

 

[Simon Says]

If you don't really know what happened, how do you know that the crew did a really good job. Maybe they really screwed it up... Maybe a crew error caused the whole problem...Maybe it was asses and elbows up there and they really dorked the situation up. Who knows, I don't and you don't either....I'm just glad no one appears to have been hurt.

What a dork....

You waste perfectly good memory for a comment like that???

 

[airplane wizard]

If they landed safely, the pilots did a good job.

 

[Cardinal]

Alternate gear extension (with the hand crank) on the A320 leaves the gear doors out in the wind.

 

[flatspin7]

I landed just after the UAL plane took off in EWR, We heard EWR Tower ask somthing about a landing gear issue, from that point on Tower could not get a hold of them.

When we taxied to the gate we saw them flying a down wind and the landed. They landed 22L at EWR and cleared the runway with out apperent distress. Tower was still trying to get a hold of the when the ARFF folks got there, they simply said they have had a "Complete Electrical Failure" and need a tow to the gate. I cant speculate anything simply because I dont know the first thing about the A320, but I would think if they went down to Standby power they would still have use of COM1...so they must have had some sort of Major electrical gremlin!

 

[Floatplane]

If you don't really know what happened, how do you know that the crew did a really good job. Maybe they really screwed it up... Maybe a crew error caused the whole problem...Maybe it was asses and elbows up there and they really dorked the situation up. Who knows, I don't and you don't either....I'm just glad no one appears to have been hurt.

El Pobre, you my friend are a complete jacka$$.

 

[rumrnr78]

While I love the posting of crew heroics, and the resulting CRM kumbya, the bottom line is is that the public still wants low fares. They will never pay for professional behavior so why post it?

Cheers- rum

 

[SonicPig]

Sounds like an Emergency Electrical Configuration, which is a Big Deal in the Bus.
If they didn't have Comm 1 it's possible the RAT didn't extend, that is a HUGE FRICKIN DEAL. If that did happen, those guys demonstrated some fine airmanship. Sounds like the WX was good, thankfully.
Some of you 320 system experts may want to weigh in here, I'm just an average line puke. I could be off base.

The Pig.

 

[flatspin7]

Thanks Pig...

The WX was clear and calm so they had that going for them... I was discussing with the CA I was flying with the amount of pucker that would result in a complete power loss in a Fly-by-wire airplane....
our limited airbus knowledge came to the conclusion that we would rather be in a 737 or a flying outhouse if that were to happen.

 

[Golden Falcon]

the 320 is an electrical gremlin going somewhere to happen

 

[maremare505]

Pig:
Even if the RAT doesn't extend VHF1, RMP1 and both ACP's are still avail. from the BAT's regardless of the speeds limits for RAT ops. There's got to be more to this story. Feel free to pipe it in. I'm on my boat drinking a cold one waiting for the Pre-Super Bowl Shooters bikini contest.

 

[Jonny Sacko]

EXCELLENT JOB ALPA, PUTTING THIS ON THE NEWS STATING HOW WELL OUR PROFESSIONAL CREWS ARE TRAINED AND PREPARED.

Prater's a F-ing JOKE. UAL ALPA should have video of the incident all over the News, except the 500,000 piss ant Prater is blowing and won't spend on advertising like this.

 

[Crucianpilot]

They managed to get one of their radios back about 5-10 mins after they landed. Pilot stated that they had a serious electrical problem just after takeoff.

 

[El Pobre]

O.K. Float,

I'll bite...I didn't say that the crew didn't do a great job, merely that we shouldn't rush to judgement that they did or didn't do a great job until we had more information.

Somehow that makes me a jerk???

O. K. Than I'm a jerk...I guess those SW guys that taxied the plane off the runway in Spokane did a great job? Maybe they did...I don't know. Maybe they had a hydraulic failure of somesort.

Everyone has been jumping on those guys for "taxiing too fast" Isn't that a bit pre-mature? We have no idea why that plane went off the taxiway/runway...so we should refrain from rushing to judgement one way or the other.

 

[Mike man]

If you don't really know what happened, how do you know that the crew did a really good job. Maybe they really screwed it up... Maybe a crew error caused the whole problem...Maybe it was asses and elbows up there and they really dorked the situation up. Who knows, I don't and you don't either....I'm just glad no one appears to have been hurt.

Spoken like a true a$$hole.

 

[Bringupthebird]

Thanks Pig...

The WX was clear and calm so they had that going for them... I was discussing with the CA I was flying with the amount of pucker that would result in a complete power loss in a Fly-by-wire airplane....
our limited airbus knowledge came to the conclusion that we would rather be in a 737 or a flying outhouse if that were to happen.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083073.ece

It sounds like the same sort of failure. The Budapest flight had electrics restored by pushing the ESS AC FEED PB per ECAM.