Emergency at Newark

[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.

 

[minrest]

I wonder if it's the same United Airbus that had an electrical problem in LAX yesterday and had to "re-boot" on the taxiway.

 

[pipe]

I was deadheading on a US Air (AWA) 320 out of OAK last month. At v1 apparently TR 2 fried and took out all nav, comm, and most or all of the displays as well as autopilot and autothrust. It's kinda tough to fly the lost comm procedure while you're lost nav at the same time. After a VFR comm out escape over the San Francisco bay area, the crew went out off the coast a couple of miles and managed to troubleshoot some stuff back into operation. They did a great job. Thank god it was CAVU though - it could have been pretty ugly.

I'm thinkin' the electrical system on the 320 may not be aging real gracefully.

PIPE

 

[murano]

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.

How did they read the ECAM when they had 6 blank displays?

 

[Bringupthebird]

Eveidently the lower ECAM was still powered. Doggone things are only supposed to fail the way they're supposed to fail!