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| X-37
June 12, 2025, 13:15:00 GMT permalink Post: 11899200 |
Doesn’t explain the apparent lack of flaps, but maybe the gear pins were still in?
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| X-37
June 13, 2025, 10:23:00 GMT permalink Post: 11900306 |
20+ years retired 777 Captain so not at all up to speed..
If you selected gear up but at that moment or just before there was a dual engine failure, would the gear move? Just curious as to how things work. Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): Dual Engine Failure Engine Failure (All) |
| X-37
July 11, 2025, 22:17:00 GMT permalink Post: 11919897 |
So the switches either snapped back to cut off of their own accord…see warning…or they were moved deliberately, which is surely unlikely.
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| X-37
July 12, 2025, 18:46:00 GMT permalink Post: 11920744 |
A question from an accepted standpoint of relative ignorance - neither a pilot nor hugely familiar with 787s although have spent a lot of time around both.
The accident report indicates that the aircraft had a STAB master caution warning on the previous sector. A maintenance action took place during the turnaround in AMD before the accident flight. Noting that the two guarded stab cutoff switches are directly adjacent to the two guardedfuel run/cutoff switches at the base of the throttle quadrant, is there any condition that could have led a pilot to reach for the stab cutoff at the critical moment? Recurrence of the tech defect from the previous sector or switches being left in the wrong position but not noticed under the red guards ? If that\x92s possible then accidental action of the fuel cutoff switches when the intent was some intervention with the stab switches seems more likely than a wilful pilot action to cut off fuel flow. Is that remotely possible, given the defect history? Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): Fuel (All) Fuel Cutoff Fuel Cutoff Switches Switch Guards |
| X-37
July 12, 2025, 21:23:00 GMT permalink Post: 11920843 |
What can be gleaned?
The fuel control switches were moved to cutoff…..or the signal said that they were, the result being the same. Why is the subject of speculation. The CVR transcript has not been fully released. The World Wide 787 fleet has not been grounded. GE are not under suspicion. Crew actions are the likely cause. Subjects (links are to this post in the relevant subject page so that this post can be seen in context): CVR Fuel (All) Fuel Cutoff Switches |
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