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FAA addresses dual-engine shutdown of A220 P&W engines

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Following a dual-engine shutdown on an aircraft with Pratt & Whitney 1500G power plants – used exclusively for the Airbus A220 family – the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) to prevent the shutdown from happening again. (www.airguide.info) More...

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Bandrunner
Bandrunner 2
And a dog to bite the monkey if it touches the controls in flight.
SkyAware123
SkyAware123 1
wow. How about the software check if there is any airspeed too....
Software is never bug free but this is a design issue.
admiral506
wayne holder 2
So how long are these planes going to be grounded until there fixed
Firecul
147 engines? Who is running the mismatched set?
loubearr
loubearr 1
DougHaviland
Doug Haviland 8
Thankfully it’s not Boeing this time. The haters would have been all over it.
bkoskie
Billy Koskie 2
Why did this take 1 1/2 years for the AD to get issued?
RexBentley
Rex Bentley 3
Rube Goldberg strikes again. Keep It Simple Stupid.
mmc7090
mmc7090 8
In CT7 language it was a uncommanded
rollback. Since the ECU/FCU actually acted as programed. Like 737MAX programmers now crash airplanes too. Automation big lie that takes pilots out of the loop.
dcmeigs
dcmeigs 2
Is this the least expensive AD note in the history of flight?
Firecul
I was also surprised by how cheap it seems to be to fix it.
godutch
godutch 8
Seems not so much an engine/engine manufacturer issue, but the AIRCRAFT avionics software issue (Airbus). The article starts out seeming to blame the engines!
SkyAware123
SkyAware123 1
The software that runs this might be part of the engine package.
RexBentley
Rex Bentley 1
Why not say what it is, it's a "problem", issues are in magazines.
RexBentley
Rex Bentley -2
Why not say what it is, it's a "problem", issues are in magazines.
mgbogue1
Mike Bogue 7
Kinda sorta, but if you read the whole article, it clearly point to the engine control software as the culprit.
chrisrobey
CHRIS ROBEY 5
Luckily in the Fokker F28 (circa 1986) we did not have any autothrottle system. So this problem would never have arisen.
jhakunti
jhakunti 1
I always wanted to fly the F28 Fellowship. CRJ700 will have to suffice.

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