Reminds me of a flight back to London from Cancun ( I can't remember the exact plane ) where we had an engine failure over the Atlantic. After a couple of attempts to turn it off an on again (this is when I knew something was up as you never normally hear the air go off in the cabin mid flight) we diverted to Gander for a single engine landing. Did the brace-brace thing but the landing was pretty normal. Only found out later that back then, there wouldn't have been enough power for a go-around so the pilot had the one chance. I wonder if that is the same now ?
It took them /3 days/ to get the part shipped in so we were all decamped to hotels and motels around town. It was amazing, the town sprung to life when we arrived even though it was quite late at night. All the restaurants and shops opened and the locals said they have a alert system for emergency landings and everyone hops to it !
stop me if i’m wrong but my understanding is that large jet airliners are designed to be able to glide to a safe landing. no?
Yes, gliding is flying. Rudimentary basics of any fixed wing aircraft is this:
Engine power gives you altitude.
The pitch of the aircraft gives you speed (nose down+gravity=more speed, nose up-gravity=less speed until you stall).
So as long as there’s enough airspeed over the wings to keep from stalling, you are flying.
Speed is life as we say among pilots…Its energy!
Reminds me of a flight back to London from Cancun ( I can't remember the exact plane ) where we had an engine failure over the Atlantic. After a couple of attempts to turn it off an on again (this is when I knew something was up as you never normally hear the air go off in the cabin mid flight) we diverted to Gander for a single engine landing. Did the brace-brace thing but the landing was pretty normal. Only found out later that back then, there wouldn't have been enough power for a go-around so the pilot had the one chance. I wonder if that is the same now ?
It took them /3 days/ to get the part shipped in so we were all decamped to hotels and motels around town. It was amazing, the town sprung to life when we arrived even though it was quite late at night. All the restaurants and shops opened and the locals said they have a alert system for emergency landings and everyone hops to it !
Congratulations to the crew for a job well done.