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Airbus A340 EMERGENCY - Engine Failure

Airbus A340 EMERGENCY - Engine Failure on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2014–2021.

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Cockpit footage of a Swiss Airbus A340 crew dealing with rising oil temperature in one engine on a Zurich to Shanghai flight, ending with a safety landing. It shows the pilots' procedures through the emergency.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a captivating look at how a professional crew calmly handles an in-flight engine problem.

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“If you really want to see something captivating, watch this clip of a Swiss A340 crew handling an overheating engine in-flight.”
— joezydeco, Sep 2018, in “Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf]”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

joezydecoSep 2018Strongly recommends

PilotsEyeTV is a really really neat thing. They sell entire box sets of whole flights. It's pretty cool that the European airlines allow this amount of camera work in the cockpit: [link] If you really want to see something captivating, watch this clip of a Swiss A340 crew handling an overheating engine in-flight. It's incredibly well done. ▶ this video

in “Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf]” · View on HN

jballancApr 2018Recommends

Here's an amazing video of what happens in the cockpit during an engine failure in a commercial airliner: ▶ this video

in “Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants” · View on HN

joezydecoDec 2014Recommends

There's a company called PilotsEYE.tv that sells DVDs of exactly this. It seems to be mostly European airlines participating, but they have some serious aircraft filmed in operation. They load the cockpit up with GoPros. Not sure but there might also be someone in the jump seat catching snapshots of the console displays as well. This one of a Lufthansa A380's final approach and landing from FRA to SFO is a really nice one: [link] This one of a Swiss Air crew handling an A340 engine problem in-flight is a great watch as well: ▶ this video

in “The pilots of Instagram: violating rules of the air” · View on HN

bellyfullofbacNov 2021Cites it

If going by the book, the pilot probably would have to ask for clearance (although maybe not if they're over international waters?), but it really is a button press (or two of them): ▶ this video

in “Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 entered a holding pattern for 22 minutes” · View on HN

sschuellerFeb 2017Cites it

There is a neat video[1] where a Swiss flight has to make an emergency landing and just happens to have a film crew in the cockpit. [1] ▶ this video

in “GitLab Database Incident – Live Report” · View on HN

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Aviation & aerospace engineeringairbus a340engine failurecockpitpilotscrew resource management