Passenger records mid-flight engine failure on cell phone

manda143 said on January 29, 2012 at 9:42 AM

no passengers were on ther cell phones making phone calls to their "loved' ones. and, yes, this person should NOT have been video taping. looking at the proppeller, he was probably in about row 5 or 6, which isn't the easiest to see when both flight attendants are secure in the jumpseat.

mdpylot80 said on January 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM

Good job Horizion Pilots. Another day at the office for well trained pilots.

jessicakthx said on January 28, 2012 at 12:39 PM

The plane is a de Havilland Dash 8-400, in case anyone's wondering.

vffrwm said on January 28, 2012 at 10:07 AM

A huge explosion would have taken the engine off the wing. I'm sure there was a "noise' but huge explosion? Also these planes as are most multi engine aircraft are designed to fly on one engine and it did. Look out the window and you will see the engine prop is "feathered" to reduce drag which is in the first part of the checklist. The pilot and co-pilot on this flight did exactly what they are trained to do.

southlakeunion said on January 28, 2012 at 5:42 AM

People = if cell phones were a REAL threat in the air you wouldn't be allowed on the plane with it.

Mytake said on January 27, 2012 at 9:09 PM

I thought that on a twin engine plane like a dash8, when one engine quits, the other one takes you to the scene of the wreck! Ahh professional pilots and all that redundant training.....

poedoldman said on January 27, 2012 at 8:12 PM

traveldoc - it was a multi engine until one quit, then it was a single engine. Good job to the crew. It isn't as easy to pull off as one poster made it sound.

franky said on January 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM

So if you are in an emergency it's ok to disregard the safetly rule of ALL electronics shut off? Humans are idiots.

klberkey said on January 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM

Oh sure... now the video works, after I said I wanna watch it. lol...

klberkey said on January 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM

Wow... that would be freakin scary! Now I just wanna see the cell phone video.

bennyboom said on January 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM

@traveldoc Really? The way you type makes you sound like a stuck up jack@**. "Portland International Airport" should help you out quite a bit. Did you watch the video? I don't think planes have one engine on the right side only....loool

dakotanative said on January 27, 2012 at 12:26 PM

These planes are tested to make sure that they can sustain flight if an engine dies. If you are cruising down the runway and see an engine shut off, you have a reason to be concerned. If one engine dies in flight, it is no big deal until another dies.

traveldoc said on January 27, 2012 at 12:22 PM

not having read this story, I wonder about details. "the propeller" coming to a stop implies a single engine aircraft, as does the silence described. This story is thus incomplete. was this a multi engine or single engine aircraft? the story implies a single engine.

sodaant said on January 27, 2012 at 12:20 PM

I honestly don't get the point of all these stories. All they do is inflate what we think is a "disaster" in the air. For example, people calling loved ones. Why were they doing that? There was no reason to really believe the flight is in danger. Any passenger airplane with more than one engine can easily fly with one or two engines out. If they are at altitude, they can even make a relatively safe landing with all engines out. From what it seems in the story, no one was ever in any real danger.

invalid said on January 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM

@scoty: The pilot was only doing what he is trained to do. It's his job, and it's the absolute minimum you expect under the circumstances.

charleylechein said on January 27, 2012 at 11:13 AM

I was so worried that we would crash land and there would be no more Cornflakes in the pantry when I got home. I closed my eyes, called for my trusty dog and we started praying to our gods, we have different gods. He prays to JackInTheBox , I pray to "Burger KIng", and then I heard a scary noise, it was my cat and woke up from a nightmare. I got up and fed the cat and dog.

chuckstr76 said on January 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM

Next... Why would this be news any more then anything else? Now days anyone with a cell phone records how much toliet paper is left on the roll just in case they run out....

scoty said on January 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM

So do we not get a kudos to the pilot? Sounds like he did a good job.

yeoman said on January 27, 2012 at 10:04 AM

Maybe him using his cell phone on the flight shut down the engine.

bazwest said on January 27, 2012 at 9:37 AM

This might make you reexamine your priorities a little.

Sir_Real said on January 27, 2012 at 8:49 AM

Nobody on site had an Apple transfer cable?