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SIA flight to Shanghai lost power on both engines in mid-air but pilots restarted the engines.
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Pilots told Reuters that losing power in both engines is an extremely rare event, but one that they are trained to handle.
“We do occasionally lose power in one engine for various reasons, but you hardly ever lose both engines. If that happens, you follow the procedures in your check-list and try to restart the engines. The pilots successfully did that here,” said a senior captain in a South-east Asian airline.
“If it was a very serious incident, they would have diverted to Hong Kong. But the fact that they continued on to Shanghai indicates that this may not have been as serious,” the pilot said, declining to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media. REUTERS
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-airlines-investigates-rare-power-loss-incident
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.@SingaporeAir investigating how both engines on plane to Shanghai temporarily lost power http://tdy.sg/1FWvTBb
SINGAPORE — Singapore Airlines (SIA) is investigating how one of its Airbus A330-300s temporarily lost power in both Rolls-Royce engines in mid-flight, the carrier said today (May 27).
The May 23 incident occurred when Flight SQ836 hit bad weather en route to Shanghai from Singapore with 194 passengers and crew on board.
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The flight landed safety in Shanghai, where no immediate “anomalies” were found in the engine, it added.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-airlines-investigates-rare-power-loss-incident
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Flightradar24 Singapore Airlines #SQ836 lost power on both engines & lost 13,000 feet before power returned http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sq836/#654baba …
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SIA flight to Shanghai lost power on both engines in mid-air
Aviation websites reported that an Airbus A330 flown by Singapore Airlines (SIA) lost power on both engines en route from Singapore to Shanghai on May 23.
Power was restored after pilots staged a partial descent.
“We are in contact with the airline and Rolls-Royce to determine the cause of this incident,” an Airbus spokesman said.
Engine maker Rolls-Royce and SIA were not immediately available for comment.
Aviation website The Aviation Herald cited a report from SIA which said that flight SQ836 encountered bad weather about three and a half hours after departure, during which both engines “experienced a temporary loss of power”. The pilots then “followed operational procedures to restore normal operation of the engines”, it said.
– See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/sia-flight-shanghai-lost-power-both-engines-mid-air#xtor=CS1-2
| According to Flightradar 24, the Airbus A330-343 experienced the problem while cruising at 39,000 ft.
The incident, which took place just south of Hong Kong, caused the airliner to drop 13,000 feet before the crew was able to restart the engines. The Airbus jet — registration number 9V-SSF — landed safely in Shanghai an hour and a half later. 182 passengers and 12 crew members were on board the airliner at the time of the incident. No Injuries were reported. Once on the ground in Shanghai, the two-month-old airliner underwent a batch of tests, but a cause for the power loss couldn’t be determined, the Aviation Herald reported. Singapore’s Air Accident Investigations Bureau is looking into the incident. |
http://forums.asiaone.com/showthread.php?t=78753
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