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stickstirrer
July 11, 2025, 21:25:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919827 |
Switch Moovement
Are there any switches that would normally be selected/ moved immediately after take off? The suggestion being that if they were moved due to a conscious act, the wrong switches were selected inadvertently. I am not suggesting that the switches might not still have moved for other reasons eg wear, not properly gated? But for both switches to move from Run to Cut Off within a few seconds of each other suggests a deliberate, if accidental, selection? God forbid if it was a deliberate, intentional action😞 For a member of the crew to identify, so quickly, that the two switches had been moved and then reinstated them was, I would suggest, miraculous\x85..unless the incorrect switch selections had been observed\x85\x85\x85
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digits_
July 11, 2025, 21:48:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919851 |
Again, you can not conclude that from the report.
Different inputs are sampled at different rates. Some very basic info here: https://scaledanalytics.com/2023/04/...uses-767-data/ It's highly likely switch positions are only sampled at 1Hz, and not at 100 Hz. For engine parameters you'll likely want a higher sample rate, as the whole engine could go from perfectly fine to exploded in less than a second. If you had something like: 08:08:42.96 UTC: cut off switch 1 08:08:43.01 UTC: cut off switch 2 It would likely be recorded as: 08:08:42 UTC: cut off switch 1 08:08:43 UTC: cut off switch 2 Leading you to believe there was one second between these 2 actions, whereas it was actually only 50ms. 19 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Right Engine
July 11, 2025, 21:48:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919852 |
The Fuel Cut Off switches on a 787 have to be pulled up (out of \x91run\x92) and whilst held up, they are then moved backwards to the \x91cut off\x92 position. They are designed this way so loose objects
can not
move them to cut off. They can only be selected to cut-off by pulling and moving rearward in the same movement.
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BrogulT
July 11, 2025, 21:48:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919853 |
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PPRuNeUser548247
July 11, 2025, 21:50:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919854 |
Agreed, it's most unfortunate that that the preliminary report hasn’t closed off speculation, it's simply created opportunity for more.
It confirms that both fuel cutoff switches were moved to OFF at Vr, within a one second interval which is as extreme and inexplicable as it gets. Then it gives us a CVR quote that’s so neutered, "Why did you cut off?” / “I didn’t”, that it raises more questions than it answers. If the goal was to reassure or clarify, it’s had the opposite effect. 5 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Engineless
July 11, 2025, 21:51:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919857 |
The phrase in the report is "switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position".
Does the FDR actually have some input of the physical position of the switches or is it just measuring the output signal voltage which might be changed by a momentary short from liquid or swarf. Both signals go to cutoff within 1 second but then one recovers four seconds after the other. Surely a pilot discovering a turned off switch would have both back on in less than four seconds. 5 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Diff Tail Shim
July 11, 2025, 21:52:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919860 |
Actually, why are switches that are only really required on the ground or in an engine shut down event where they are? Embraer's have the switches out of the way on an overhead panel and as well as detent locked, have a protective guard, one has to physically lift. If the PF had to physically carry out the engine shut down on an Embraer, he would have to raise his arm. Would be obvious to the PnF.
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alexmclean
July 11, 2025, 21:54:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919862 |
So, yes, switches.
either 1/deliberately cut off by someone in the cockpit, or 2/placed in an intermediate gate position possible due to wear or wrong installation, happens during engine start, and then vibrates or bumps to cut-off during the take off roll or 3/some kind of liquid or other contamination in the LRU shorting both and cycling them after 8 seconds brought them electrically back to RUN. Anyone got other ideas? I would have thought a pilot would notice the engines spooling down, and comment on that. To immediately jump to the cutoff switches as the cause rather implies something drew attention to the switches. Then there is a 10+ second gap before the switches are set to run again. I can't think of any good reason why the PNF would have taken so long to correct an accidental or deliberate manipulation of the switches. 7 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
PPRuNeUser548247
July 11, 2025, 21:55:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919864 |
One item in the report is the position of the LG Lever - Down.
Given the lack of a full transcript, and in trying to defend the crewmembers intentions , Is it possible that at the point of "Positive Rate - Gear Up" - PM Brain farted, and performed a different muscle memory action? Thus they would deny moving the Switches - and take a few seconds to compute what they just did? 6 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Kraftstoffvondesibel
July 11, 2025, 21:57:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919867 |
It can only know their electrical, not mechanical positions. Think about it, how would that work?
Would love to see some kind of accelerometer reading of the moment the switches went to cut off. Or even cockpit area audio. They will figure it out. 2 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
za9ra22
July 11, 2025, 22:00:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919868 |
Agreed, it's most unfortunate that that the preliminary report hasn\x92t closed off speculation, it's simply created opportunity for more.
It confirms that both fuel cutoff switches were moved to OFF at Vr, within a one second interval which is as extreme and inexplicable as it gets. Then it gives us a CVR quote that\x92s so neutered, "Why did you cut off?\x94 / \x93I didn\x92t\x94, that it raises more questions than it answers. If the goal was to reassure or clarify, it\x92s had the opposite effect. As to the report not closing off speculation, that isn't it's purpose. It is there to report the facts as they are found. It must also be said that speculation is not in any place but the eye of the beholder. 6 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
KSINGH
July 11, 2025, 22:04:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919872 |
The landing gear lever is forward and up on the centre instrument panel, adjacent to the PFD. The two fuel control switches are aft and low, on the thrust pedestal. There's no reasonable way to confuse one for the other in terms of position, hand movement or 'muscle memory'.
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Mrshed
July 11, 2025, 22:04:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919873 |
The phrase in the report is "switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position".
Does the FDR actually have some input of the physical position of the switches or is it just measuring the output signal voltage which might be changed by a momentary short from liquid or swarf. Both signals go to cutoff within 1 second but then one recovers four seconds after the other. Surely a pilot discovering a turned off switch would have both back on in less than four seconds. 11 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Diff Tail Shim
July 11, 2025, 22:04:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919874 |
The landing gear lever is forward and up on the centre instrument panel, adjacent to the PFD. The fuel control switches are aft and low, on the thrust pedestal. There's no reasonable way to confuse one for the other in terms of position, hand movement or 'muscle memory'.
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Kraftstoffvondesibel
July 11, 2025, 22:04:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919875 |
Actually, why are switches that are only really required on the ground or in an engine shut down event where they are? Embraer's have the switches out of the way on an overhead panel and as well as detent locked, have a protective guard, one has to physically lift. If the PF had to physically carry out the engine shut down on an Embraer, he would have to raise his arm. Would be obvious to the PnF.
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GroundedSpanner
July 11, 2025, 22:05:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919876 |
The landing gear lever is forward and up on the centre instrument panel, adjacent to the PFD. The two fuel control switches are aft and low, on the thrust pedestal. There's no reasonable way to confuse one for the other in terms of position, hand movement or 'muscle memory'.
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Mrshed
July 11, 2025, 22:06:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919877 |
In the case of (2) or (3), would the expected response be "Why did you cutoff"?
I would have thought a pilot would notice the engines spooling down, and comment on that. To immediately jump to the cutoff switches as the cause rather implies something drew attention to the switches. Then there is a 10+ second gap before the switches are set to run again. I can't think of any good reason why the PNF would have taken so long to correct an accidental or deliberate manipulation of the switches. You need to take the audio together with the switch data, not in isolation. The two combined would appear to rule out a lot of options that the data alone would leave possible. 4 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
eagle21
July 11, 2025, 22:06:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919878 |
Out of interest, hypothetically if the captain was an instructor, is there a possibility that any kind of muscle memory from simulated failures in the simulator may have been triggered?
Let\x92s say that you are having to retrain another pilot on v1 cut handling whilst you occupy the P1 seat. Temptation may be to use the fuel cut off switches to save time rather than going back to the sim operator panel to reprogram the failure. 2 users liked this post. Reply to this quoting this original post. You need to be logged in. Not available on closed threads. |
Engineless
July 11, 2025, 22:07:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919881 |
A douple-pole switch. One pole used for FDR signal for the physcial switch position. The other pole for the electrical switching circuit.
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EnerJi
July 11, 2025, 22:08:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919884 |
I know it's not a popular opinion around here but it seems like a flight deck camera would be quite useful right about now to determine whether either pilot's hands strayed near the fuel cutoff switches at the recorded time.
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