American? So much for any connections.
-D > On Sep 20, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Well the flight is now delayed an hour while they “secure” the APU. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Very rare to lose both engines in flight. So rare as "not supposed to >> happen in the service life of the aircraft" if it were to happen it would be >> from something like contaminated fuel, a significant maintenance error, or >> massive foreign object ingestion in both engines. If an engine flames out at >> altitude I believe the windmilling from the airstream gives it enough >> rotation for a relight, though I stand to be corrected. Aircraft can >> generally depart with the APU inop so it is not critical for any anticipated >> in-flight emergencies. >> >> >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> Well they just rolled the air cart over and fired up the engines. Without >>> an APU one engine can start the other, but with both dead mid air and no >>> APU, I would only hope the airflow would be enough to spin them up. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes >>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't think they would need the starter to do an airstart if the engine >>>> is spinning. >>>> >>>> I was on a flight once that had the BSOD on the control system, they >>>> rebooted the whole airplane 3X (start, shutdown, start...) then put us off >>>> to go find another airplane. >>>> >>>> --FT >>>> >>>>> On 9/20/21 11:34 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>>> Of course they can start the engines with the ground APU but I assume if >>>>> they lost both engines in flight they would have no way to start them. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Never had this happen before. We pushed back, tug unhooked and plane >>>>>> lost all power, completely dead. No lights no AC no engines. I >>>>>> immediately think they lost the APU. Sure enough pilot comes on and says >>>>>> we lost the “backup” power to start the engines. Now being towed back to >>>>>> the gate. Guess we will need a jumpstart. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>>> >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> --FT >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
