Taiwan pilots and telling left from right
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At the risk of justifying tarunik's irrational hatred of Taiwanese pilots, it is starting to look as if they restarted the wrong engine after their engine failure:
The right engine entered a state called "auto-feather", in which it reduced thrust to the propeller, Thomas Wang, managing director of the council, told a news briefing.
The flight crew then reduced power to the left engine, turned it off and attempted to restart it, but it did not gain enough thrust.
There was no word on what may have been going through the pilots' minds or what the instruments may have been telling them, but evidence presented so far will raise questions over whether they accidentally cut the wrong engine.
The plane can fly fine on one engine, but it can't fly on one feathered (i.e. not providing thrust) engine and one completely stopped engine.
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Yeah -- my hatred wasn't directed specifically at Taiwanese pilots, but at anyone who gets their ATPL and still manages to hose up an engine failure scenario despite all the times they've practiced it in the sim.
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Also, this reminds me that I should throw a question re: basic multi-engine training and transferability from small to large aircraft on aviation.SE sometime...
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I've seen worse fuckups. Like the Russian pilot who let his kid fly the plane.
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Totally. Were they taking selfies at the time?
NTSB: Taking selfies likely caused fatal Colorado plane crash | CNN
A pilot was likely distracted while taking selfies and lost control of a plane in a fatal crash in Colorado, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
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That was like some yahoo and his drunk buddy. Not in the same league with passenger airliners.
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True. Still pretty dumb.
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The plane can fly fine on one engine, but it can't fly on one feathered (i.e. not providing thrust) engine and one completely stopped engine.
Oh, actually, it can fly. It can't climb, but it could at least make a reasonably survivable ditching.
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#左 vs 右
Seems pretty obvious to me...
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