Cable Forum - Qantas grounds A380s after Singapore emergency landing

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35325033)

Plane engines get shut down all the time and nobody reads about it unless its a new plane or somebody famous in onboard.

IMHO it's a non story.

thats true but sometimes risks taken too far on grounds finance. Did Qantas really need the engines tuned differently would without tuning would they been fine.

Few years back from mallorca we had electric fault in 1 engine the tour operator decided to jump start the engine down the runway:shocked:. Pilot said its like jump starting a car yes right thats convincing cars dont fall out sky.

As we passed point no return no sign it kicking in we was commited to take off mountains ahead it suddenly spluttered into life but not enough speed.

As we went in the air we started falling as clearly we was stalling with lack airspeed. Screams everywhere as people thought we going down but then it kicked in full speed we climbed again.

Never been scared all my life flying that flight as we goto manchester loads of fire engines followed us. Probably as this engine was still worry.

I believe the procedure banned as its been tried another 2 times and they crashed on takeoff.