Simviation Forum - Passenger saves the day!

May 22^nd, 2009 at 10:32am

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090522/twl-officer-s-mid-air-fuel-leak-video-sa-3fd...

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Reply #1 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 10:41am

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Awesome story! Scary to think it took the man that long to get the flight crew to take it seriously.

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Reply #2 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 11:37am

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You know ? I just had and amazing Idea, to give To the FDA and the aircrft builders in the whole world ,To Install cameras outside Beneath the wings (like the song) and put them in the cockpit ,there's been hundreds of incidents where passengers see failure and pilot in the head of the plane ignore, there was the 737-400 who engine1 was on fire and they Shut down engine1 the plane crash but there where survivors ..

seriously they should put video cameras focusing the wings and engines and the third engineer monitoring them ..in all passenger planes and recorded into the black box , I hope this is not like my Old idea to put parachutes in heavy Jets too Tongue

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Reply #3 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 12:26pm

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What bothers me is that this aircraft flew from Chicago all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and neither pilot noticed the fuel gauge going down. I think this is a major problem in commercial flying, the pilots become too complacent and fail to monitor their gauges like every new pilot is taught to do.

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Reply #4 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 2:47pm

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The flight deck crew did not notice a 2700kg per hour fuel leak Huh

I think that the media has hyped this up a bit. Every aviation story just of late is more sexed up than the dodgy dossier for invading Iraq........but that is another story.

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Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 5:49pm

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If the passenger would have been any other person on the plane, I am sure there would be quiet a panic. Grin

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Reply #6 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 7:50pm

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Alejandro Rhodes wrote on May 22^nd, 2009 at 11:37am:

You know ? I just had and amazing Idea, to give To the FDA and the aircrft builders in the whole world ,To Install cameras outside Beneath the wings (like the song) and put them in the cockpit ,there's been hundreds of incidents where passengers see failure and pilot in the head of the plane ignore, there was the 737-400 who engine1 was on fire and they Shut down engine1 the plane crash but there where survivors ..

seriously they should put video cameras focusing the wings and engines and the third engineer monitoring them ..in all passenger planes and recorded into the black box , I hope this is not like my Old idea to put parachutes in heavy Jets too Tongue

I believe that the 787 does have a bunch of cameras all around it.

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Reply #7 - May 26^th, 2009 at 8:40pm

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Sgt Bachleda... An officer?

Most of the stories these days aren't just 'passengers' saving the day - They are typically experts or those with good experience. This one is no exception. He knew what he was talking about and yeah, it was a bit weird how others didn't notice it and how the staff didn't really listen either.

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Reply #8 - May 27^th, 2009 at 12:15pm

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That report is completely different to one I have read earlier on CNN. They claimed the crew already knew about the problem before the passenger spoke up. Maybe a little harsh to have a go at the flight crew just now?

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