OK, so now I know that a minor mechanical failure followed by a whole series of crew mistakes led to the 1985 near-disaster of China Airlines 006. The captain orders the engineer to find a 3-engine altitude, but almost immediately interrupts that by saying to restart the flamed out engine. The engineer flips a reignite switch without shutting off a bleeder valve in order to provide all oxygen to the engine. The plane banks and the captain doesn't compensate with the rudder because autopilot is on and the captain assumes the rudder compensation has already happened (does rudder position show anywhere on the bank of instruments?). The whole crew looks at attitude meters and don't believe what they are saying and concludes they've all failed. And the plane plunges into clouds, disorienting the crew.
The NTSB attributes the whole thing to the captain's jet lag.
One hardly knows where to start, so I'll start here. If reigniting an engine is a 2-step process, why does a very experienced engineer forget 50 percent of it?
The NTSB attributes the whole thing to the captain's jet lag.
One hardly knows where to start, so I'll start here. If reigniting an engine is a 2-step process, why does a very experienced engineer forget 50 percent of it?
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