Questions tagged [emergency-procedures]
Questions specifically about procedures to be used in emergency situations. Use the "emergency" tag for more general questions.
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How can Ural Airlines fly an A320 from an unpaved field after an emergency landing?
Ural Airlines flight 1383 had to land in a field due to hydraulic problems and fuel shortage. The airline does not scrap it, but is repairing (source) and is going to fly it. A320 landing gear is not ...
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What does the "EMERG BATT switch" and the associated phrase "(if starting battery installed)" mean?
What does the "EMERG BATT switch" and the associated phrase "(if starting battery installed)" mean? I could not understand what the "EMERG BATT switch" and its associated ...
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What open-loop control inputs can guarantee non-divergent descents in fixed-wing aircraft?
(Inspired by What's the best way to get through clouds when not instrument rated? which has at its heart a good question, but isn't getting good answers because everyone is jumping on the "...
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What if I lost electricity in the night when my destination airport light need to activate by radio?
This is an interesting question I've discussed with my friends
As the title says. In this case your transponder doesn't work. Despite the tower can use light to guide you. But:
It's totally dark and ...
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Would a passenger on an airliner in an emergency be forced to evacuate?
If a passenger on a part 121 airline flight on an N-registered aircraft refuses to evacuate (or insists on evacuating last, to avoid getting in others' way), would (s)he be forced to evacuate? Assume ...
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Consequences for passengers taking baggage during evacuation [closed]
There are obvious safety reasons to leave luggage behind during an emergency, but many passengers knowingly ignore this and choose to take their luggage with them.
I haven't found a clear answer: Do ...
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Are there procedures for pilots to handle loss of ATC at normally-towered airports?
Are there procedures for pilots to safely handle a situation in which ATC loses the ability to communicate (complete loss of power, incapacitation of all controllers, etc.) at a busy towered airport?
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Do airliners have a "switch" or other means of rapidly squawking emergency?
A standard means of informing Air Traffic Control of an emergency situation is to enter the code 7700 into the radar transponder. However, in a situation where the radios are busy and the crew is ...
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RAT Deployment and Stowage
In this question, it states that the ram air turbine (RAT) deploys automatically on Airbus aircraft when there is a dual engine failure. Is there a way to stow the RAT in case systems are recovered ...
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Cessna 208B Caravan various emergencies
looking for help from some experienced Caravan pilots.
So for the 208B Caravan we have our emergency checklist,
which for engine failure tells us to power idle prop feather and fuel lever to idle and ...
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What does this handle from the movie Flight (2012) do?
I wanted to ask about something that, as an aviation enthusiast I have never seen before, from the movie Flight with Denzel Washington. Perhaps the reason is is because it's a movie.
You pull these ...
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Why descend after a single engine failure in an Airbus?
The procedure says to descend to lrc ceiling. But, why do we need to descend?
The aircraft is still able to maintain speed even at higher altitudes,
at FL300, in FS2020, it was maintaining around 215-...
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From a safety standpoint, which is better: voice aural alerts or tone aural alerts?
Most modern airplanes have some sort of crew alerting system. These alerts are generally conveyed through display messages, lights, and aural alerts. Aural alerts can either be tones or voices. For ...
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What is the difference between the two fields on the bottom half of the upper ECAM display on Airbus airplanes?
Note the two fields with green text on the bottom half of the display, separated by a white line. During abnormal conditions, the left portion may show "ECAM actions," but I do not know what ...
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Pilot NOT confirming checklist in Sully (2016). A script error?
In Sully (2016) there's a short moment when pilot flying (captain) confirms something exactly opposite to the checklist item just read by pilot not flying (first officer):
FO: Emergency electrical ...
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How is the hazard from a malfunctioned ejection seat system handled?
Suppose an incident like this:
An airplane equipped with an ejection seat suffers a problem severe enough that the pilot decides to eject. As he pulls the handle... nothing happens. The ejection ...
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How to calculate the altitude my aircraft normally loses in two minutes of gliding descent?
As this may be a rookie question, I just can't wrap my head around if it is an approximate or established number.
Doesn't it always depend on different conditions, such as wind(affecting AGL immensely)...
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What do you need to have onboard for flights with an ultralight/sport aircraft over water (Atlantic, Pacific)? Life raft possible (weight/size)?
Remark: For us in Germany an UL is a 2 seater with 470/600kg MTOW. AFAIK those are named Light Sport Aircraft in the US/Australia. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_C42
What do you use if ...
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If alternator fails and I'm running on battery power, what equipment can I turn off to conserve power?
For a PPL, if the alternator goes out and I'm running on battery power, the typical advice is turn off what you can to conserve power. But what exactly is safe/unsafe, or order in which to turn off ...
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Are there aeromedical reasons to avoid too-rapid descent in hypoxia?
I recently watched this video:
When the controller realized the pilot was hypoxic (at about 9m47s in the video) they said,
Kalitta 66 if able descend and maintain FL260
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What rules exist that state what a competent authority do with a runaway drone?
In this AAIB accident investigation, published in 2021, a rather terrifying event is described in which a 3m long, 95 kg remote-control nearly-home-built drone is flown at speeds of up to 25 m/s below ...
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Who or what is the DEN and what do they do?
I was reading some older Av.SE pages and ended up on the ATC procedural document JO 7110.65 for handling emergencies. Down at the very bottom under 10.2.19(b) which has to do with medical/health ...
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During an engine failure in Diamond DA-40, should the prop lever be at fine pitch or coarse pitch?
Chapter 3 of AFM doesn't mention anything about prop lever setting during engine restarting for both windmilling as well as stationary propeller
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Could an airliner pilot successfully exit alone from a controlled ocean ditching?
MH370's 777 disappeared into the Indian Ocean, the investigation positing a possibility of a pilot self-hijacking the plane and flying until resource exhaustion, then gliding into a "controlled&...
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Why did my plane descend nose down?
I was on a flight recently and the plane started to descend normally etc. However one cabin crew member randomly announced "remember if we have an emergency landing please leave all your ...
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What is the minimum altitude needed to return to the takeoff airport in a 737 after dual engine failure?
Last week, I had my first lesson in a 737 sim. The instructor, when talking about risks with flying the 737, said the only time it would be "game over", would be if you had a double engine ...
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What is the brace position in light aircraft like a Cessna?
There is nothing to grab onto in the front, except the yoke, and it's not possible to bend over because, again, the yoke is in the way.
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How far can a plane squawking 7700 be heard and how quickly will the news spread?
This is just an idle question I have after watching Non-Stop (2014), but suppose a plane (let's assume a Boeing 767-400) is over the Atlantic and sets its transponder to indicate it's in an emergency. ...
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How to do the land maneuver if I got complete thrust loss after liftoff with runway ahead?
I am flying a single engine aircraft and after liftoff in air at low height, I lost the engine but I till have some runway length ahead, what should I do? Land straight ahead? How could I tell if I ...
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Does a B777 have a control priority button?
There have been accidents where one pilot gets confused, panics, inappropriately pulls or pushes the control column, and the other pilot does not manage to get control from them and the aircraft ...
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Which way to turn to return to runway for downwind landing-- into crosswind or with crosswind?
The scenario-- you are taking off with a significant headwind component but also a significant crosswind component. You experience a power loss (or perhaps a tow rope break in a glider). You judge ...
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When is it appropriate to foam a landing strip? (example JB292)
Background:
I recently watched the Channel5 documentary on JetBlue 292 with their famous sideways landing gear. At around the 8:00-mark you see footage of the actual landing: Main landing gear intact ...
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Light aircraft elevator/aileron/direction not working [closed]
What is the correct procedure if a light aircraft (under1000kg) elevator/aileron/direction stop working? Is it alright to use the ballistic parachute(if the aircraft is equipped with one)?
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Are overwing exits still useable if the flaps can’t be lowered?
Essentially all narrowbody airliners (except for the very smallest propliners), and many widebodies as well,1 are equipped with one or more overwing exits for use in an emergency evacuation; these ...
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What are the engine-out implications of giant turbofans?
It seems that turbofans for civil airliners are improving fuel efficiency by building larger and larger fans that spin slower. For example, the RR Trent 800 introduced in 1993 had a diameter of 2.8m, ...
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How is an off-field landing accomplished at night?
Common sense suggests it's much easier to do an off-field landing at day than at night, curious to know how it's accomplished at night.
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What should the pilots do when fire is detected during the takeoff roll at high speed?
Let us say fire or smoke is detected during a takeoff roll when the speed is so high that the pilots can not make a full stop using the remaining runway. What is the best option: using full brake to ...
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What is the procedure for an engine fire in the 737-800?
If there is a fire in one of the engines of the 737-800, what is the procedure to be followed in the following situations?
Climb
Cruising altitude
Approach
What should the pilot do in the cabin in ...
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How can I communicate an emergency de-pressurization descent to the cabin as a passenger?
Hypothetical scenario. I'm on a commercial airliner (A320) as a passenger, sitting by the wings. We are cruising at 32,000. The oxygen masks suddenly drop down and the nose pitches down heavily, ...
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Do pilots of commercial aircraft have ready access to a map or data showing nearest airports in case of a need to make an emergency landing?
As a passenger I often wonder that if a pilot had to make an emergency landing, do they have access to live information to direct them to the nearest airport or is this something that they have to ...
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What could I do to a give a plane an emergency boost of power for takeoff?
For some reason the pilot has to take off in an emergency or is on a runway too short or maybe they just want more places they can land and takeoff. The single engine plane is already light on fuel ...
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Diamond DA42 - Do you need the electric master on to extend landing gear?
For the Diamond DA42 (TDI)
Learning my electric fire emergencies. Would it be wise to extend the landing gear before electric master is turned off?
Does the (hydraulic) gear power pack require the ...
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Can I make an emergency landing in Area 51? [duplicate]
In an emergency situation, it is permitted to land the aircraft anywhere. But does that include military bases such as Area 51? If my plane crashes and I determine that the safest place to land is ...
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Has any commercial airliner ever flown inverted? [duplicate]
Has any commercial airliner ever flown inverted, either intentionally (extremely unlikely) or during an upset?
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What pitch attitudes are common during an emergency descent for an airliner?
What pitch attitudes are common during an emergency descent? I assume it would be a fairly nose-down attitude, but I can't imagine how steep would feel to the passengers.
Suppose a gradual ...
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What is the rejected takeoff procedure for a blown tire?
When I got a tire/wheel issue during takeoff, how should I execute the rejected takeoff procedure? Is it different than the typical rejected takeoff procedure for an engine out that is applying the ...
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Do airliners have any cockpit indication of open doors?
A recent report into an "unnecessary" plane evacuation reports that, following an aborted takeoff
[The senior flight attendant] then ordered an evacuation of the 169
passengers onboard, but ...
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Why "Throttle...Open 1/2 travel" on engine troubleshoot checklist?
Why do some engine troubleshoot checklists (on small single engine piston aircraft) call for throttle to only be open 1/2 travel? I suspect it has something to do with modern fuel injected engines, ...
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Seatbelt safety and quick release [closed]
Seatbelts, are said to be the object that causes the most deaths in emergency situations on airplanes. (this part is hearsay, just ancillary! :) )
I free-dive, and one of the rules we were taught is ...
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If I have the Covid virus, should I consider using O2 at all altitudes while engaged in GA aviation? [closed]
If I have the Covid virus, should I consider using O2 at all altitudes while engaged in GA aviation as PIC? To combat decreases in physiological functioning due to the virus?
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