By law, planes have to be able to fly from point A to point B, over water, on just one engine. 9News
while flying over the Pacific Ocean.
These are highly trained pilots who spend a lot of time in full-motion simulators going over events exactly like this.It becomes rote; you don't panic, you don't go off the rails, you remember your training, and that's what happened here.By law, planes have to be able to fly from point A to point B, over water, on just one engine.
But while a plane can fly on one engine, it is very rare for an engine to go down in the middle of a flight. There are ground tests and flight tests and certification processes that need to be followed before a plane can take passengers. That's why these events are so unusual.Details on what exactly happened are yet to emerge, but it's certainly possible for engine failure to make a sound. It depends on the type of failure. If it was a section within the engine breaking, that could make a noise loud enough for passengers to hear it.
Reports the plane's air conditioning subsequently stopped working suggests to me the crew probably had to turn off some systems to achieve their goal of landing successfully back in Sydney.When an event like this happens, pilots have a process for scanning their instrumentation to isolate and figure out what's happening.It lists all the potential emergency situations that might happen on a plane.
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