Just Another Day in Asia - Holiday Edition

[Eric Janson]

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Looks like a new landing gear and 2 Engines to be replaced. Probably plenty of structural damage. Serious $$$.

Looks like a mishandled low speed rejected take-off due to asymmetric thrust.

If you end up in a situation where you have a huge amount of asymmetric thrust at low speed the [b]only[/b] thing you can do is cut the thrust to regain directional control. Rudder doesn't work at low speed and the nose wheel steering will be over powered by the asymmetric thrust.

This isn't trained even though it is a lot more difficult to handle than the standard engine failure at V1. You need to be quick or you're off the runway.

Engines can and will accelerate at different rates - which is why a lower thrust is initially set and when all engines stabilise at this setting you can advance the thrust to the take-off setting. (Example:- on the CFM 56 we set 50%N1 and when all engines are stabilised we set FLEX or TOGA thrust).

[Colonel]

It's odd that people keep insisting that
basic aircraft handling skills are obsolete
in our brave new world of push-button aviation.

[Eric Janson]

Not in the books? = Don't know.

Not trained? = Don't know.

It's the "Monkey See -  Monkey Do" approach to training. Seen it first hand at a S Asian Flag Carrier.

The only thing that surprises me is that the region doesn't see more accidents.

The solution (told to me by an airbus rep) is "more automation".

What could possibly go wrong?

[Colonel]

[quote]The airline reported [u]due to a technical glitch[/u] [b]the aircraft spun nearly 360 degrees while aligning the runway for takeoff[/b][/quote]

As long as their paperwork was ok, there's no problem!

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[Colonel]