Yep. We deplaned for close to 2 hours, now we are back on but looks like they are still using the air cart to start the engines. I’m just going to STL, if I would have driven I would have been getting there about now. As it stands I won’t get in till 9pm.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 20, 2021, at 12:24 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
