Ever had an engine failure?

[skyking1976]

Rick1128 - I was in a Navajo-B. Portable O2 and a critical engine.

tcoll777 - On the route I was flying, (APA-ABQ) the highest MORA between APA and ALS is 16,400. Throw in occasional IFR, an unusable FL180, and you get FL200 for correct altitude based on course. Even at FL200 you lose radar contact intermittently just south of Alamosa. Besides, weight was never an issue on this leg.
BTW... whoever told you that you get better fuel burn down low must have always been flying west in the winter time. I averaged 10-15 gallons less fuel burn at FL200 than VFR on top at 14,500. True airspeed, ain't it grand!

Keep 'em turning, folks!
SK

 

[rfeathe1]

I flew piston Convairs for 8000 plus hours & had 7 engine in flight shutdowns--mostly for bad cylinders. Never lost one on take off after V1. I did lose one going thru 80 knots but kept it on the runway. ( DAY rw 6R). No. 2 engine threw a master rod & did over $20000 of structual damage before we got it shut down. This engine ( P&W R 2800) continued running on the row of cylinders that still had a good master rod. I'm glad it happened on the runway--I'm sure we would have literally "lost" this engine.

 

[Rick1128]

Have had a couple of failures after V1. Lost two engines on a DC6 out of MIA. Loaded to gross, lost number 2 just before V2 and lost number 4 about the time the wheels hit the wells. And that is as high as we got all the way around the traffic pattern. One engine lost two cylinders and the other was an oil pump failure.

The other was a Lear 25 out of MDW. FODed an engine just after liftoff. Used normal numbers and stilled climbed at 2500 FPM at gross. Airport closed right after we left so we continued to SPI. Climbed to FL180 and still maintained 350 kts at reduced power. The failed engine still ran at 65% RPM. No power but it was still running a generator and Hyd pump. When we inspected the engine every blade aft of the first stage was either flat or gone. I guess the engine wasn't made by GE, it was really made by Timex.

 

[banned username 2]

Have had a couple of failures after V1. Lost two engines on a DC6 out of MIA. Loaded to gross, lost number 2 just before V2 and lost number 4 about the time the wheels hit the wells. And that is as high as we got all the way around the traffic pattern. One engine lost two cylinders and the other was an oil pump failure.

Now THAT'S what I call a "Bad Day"... Two engines within seconds of each other for non-related items... Time for a new maintenance department!

 

[tcoll777]

skyking1976


Disreguard my original post. I had a few cocktails when I wrote that.

 

[TurboS7]

Why not just delete it.???

 

[skyking1976]

skyking1976


Disreguard my original post. I had a few cocktails when I wrote that.

As one imbiber to another, I understand completely.

Have a nice day!

SK

 

[Rick1128]

Actually the maintenance department was really quite good. R-2800s at that time were starting to get quite old and parts were getting harder to find. It was the luck of the draw. From what the old timers told me, having two engines fail was not unknown. I was fortunate that it wasn't two on the same side. Now that would have really been a bad day.

 

[Vector4fun]

I've had two, both in PA-23 Apaches. One during my MEL training. (Broken Mixture cable) And another many years later right at rotation at a hot, high little runway. (carb) Thankfully, just enough runway left to stop. A few seconds later, it would have been REAL interesting in the twin cub.

My Dad told me they seemed to have a precautionary shut-down a week on the DC-7, but the R-2800s in the -6s and Convairs would run fine with one cylinder head gone. He also had to shut down an engine on a Civilian C-130 during a 3-engine ferry. Yes, THAT engine. Said it was no problem at all empty, could have flown a holding pattern into the two good engines.....

 

[A Squared]

35 engine shutdowns. Most of them precautionary shutdowns, of course. 3 of them were failures between v1 and v2. A few more were failuses in cruise.

 

[banned username 2]

35 engine shutdowns. Most of them precautionary shutdowns, of course. 3 of them were failures between v1 and v2. A few more were failuses in cruise.

35 engine shutdowns in 4,500 hours?!?!?! No offense, but I hope I NEVER fly with you! You must have a black cloud over your head!

 

[mobs]

Only three in 38 years,two in the 727(false fire warning)and one for low oil press in the YS-11. In the sim. god only knows how many I have both given and gotten.

 

[ILikePlanes]

I've never had one personally, but the company i work for had two different 737's both have in flight flame outs within 2 or 3 days. The one that ended up in dallas, mx changed the hmu on the engine that had flamed out, but when they went to taxi it back to the gate the opposite engine decided to flame out. Very very wierd....i'd like to think that it was bad fuel seeing as how all the engines are relatively new. Although, with all the additives in there and mx sumping the tanks checking for water and such.....i wonder if it really could be bad fuel or not??? Very very wierd.

 

[enigma]

My failure of these sorts was in a J31. We lost a propgovernor at rotation. The FO was flying and did a perfect job. Torque was fluctuating from 80% (max) to the bottom of the gauge. I'm not sure, but I believe that I would rather have suffered total failure. The torque fluctuations had that junkstream yawing pretty good. Not fun. The FO flew and I started to shut the engine down. As I reduced power, the fluctuation lessened until it went away at idle thrust. We flew that pattern, after notifiying the tower and made an uneventful landing.

Yes, bad things do happen at critical times.

regards,
enigma

 

[TurboS7]

I forgot about that one, I had an engine fire light and bell come on at rotation on the 727. I shut the engine down and returned, it was a positioning flight, so routine I forgot about it. Thanks to the sim.

 

[HAZ-MAT]

you tell them to grab their ankles and kiss their ass goodbye

 

[banned username 2]

Re: can some one till me please do you have

can some one please till me when you have an eng shute down or some thing do you have to prepare the passengers for an emergeny landing or what do you till them?

thanks

Bruce

HPN

It's "TELL", not "till"... there is no I in the word! Also "SHUT" doesn't have an E! No offense, but do people not attend school anymore?

 

[TurboS7]

Our airline uses NTSB to brief the FA's:

Nature of the Emergency
Time-how much time till landing
Special Circumstances to consider
Brace signal

 

[ibaflyer]

I had my first engine failure the other day. I was heading to the end of the runway for departure, reached over to turn the GPS on and my cuff on my dress shirt hooked over the mixture control knob. When I pulled my arm back, I pulled the mixture to cut-off and well you know what happened next.......

I cussed my freak'n head off and looked to see if anyone else saw this.

Now with that in mind, the version that I am going to tell everyone else will include, night time, IFR, icing with my co-pilot on fire.......Sounds somewhat better don't you think?

 

[Typhoon1244]

I lost one a while back. I was over northern Iraq when my F-18's #2 engine suffered a bleed leak and I had to shut it down. Things were looking pretty bad until I had to take out the garbage...so I saved the game and decided to go back to it later.

But at the time, it was pretty scary!

But enough of this baloney...let's talk about ibaflyer's avatar! ("Grrr, baby! Grrr!")