Questions tagged [aircraft-failure]
A state in which one or more systems on an aircraft have failed, affecting the aircraft as a whole.
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Tail rotor failure
Has it ever been tried to install a pipe from the engine to the side of the tail rotor that stops the helicopter from spinning when the rotor stops, producing a jet force to counteract the spin. In a ...
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What would happen to the aircraft and its control surfaces immediately after the loss of all hydraulics?
In cases like the DHL shoot-down in 2003 or the Sioux City crash, both aircraft lost all of their hydraulics because of a catastrophic failure of aircraft structure.
What would happen if the aircraft ...
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Is an autopilot failure an emergency?
If the autopilot of an airliner fails, but everything else still works, weather conditions are good, and the pilots are able to hand-fly the plane with no problems, is this an emergency? Would they ...
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What happened to this plane during landing? Failed first time? [closed]
Hi I was checking flights at Heathrow on flightradar24.com the other day and found this plane a bit strange. It looked like the first landing wasn't successful. The plane may have touched down but ...
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Do aircraft have backup systems to trim when they don't have trim wheels?
What happens if the motor that trims the elevator of an airplane fails and there are no trim wheels in the cockpit (like in the Boeing 747). Is there a backup system or hidden trim wheels?
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What would a Category II ILS approach require that a Category III approach wouldn't?
According to @RalphJ's first comment on my earlier question about ILS approaches in an E-Jet sans pitch trim:
Are you sure that Cat III approaches are allowed in that condition? Typically, Cat III ...
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What are the different ways my alternator is failing?
I am a student pilot training to get my PPL. My CFI asked me the following:
How can you know your alternator stopped working?
My first response was annunciator lights. Then the instructor said, what ...
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Is it possible to continue flying without electric power? [duplicate]
To be specific with the question, I would like to know if if it is possible to continue flying in the event of total loss of electrical power. Obviously, I know this entails the shutting down of ...
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Why does an ADIRU 1 failure disable all functions of the A330/340’s GPWS - even those not requiring ADIRU data?
Among the many (many many) aircraft systems degraded or rendered unavailable to the flightcrew of QF72 as a result of a partial intermittent ADIRU 1 (Air Data / Inertial Reference Unit 1) failure, the ...
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Why does the DC-9's antiskid system have to be manually disarmed during landing rollout following a ground-shift-mechanism malfunction on takeoff?
An aircraft's ground-shift mechanism (usually a sensor wired to the nosegear strut that looks to see whether the strut is compressed or not) tells the aircraft whether it's on the ground or in the air....
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Can a 737NG still fly when every single electric run device/system is dead?
So, as my title suggest, I wonder if the 737NG can still fly without any of it's electric run systems, which means anything that runs on electricity is dead.
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Why do the A320’s primary flight controls have hydromechanical backups only for the rudder?
The A320 is primarily a fly-by-wire aircraft, with the pilots’ joystick and rudder-pedal inputs not going directly to the flight-control surfaces, but, rather, to the aircraft’s flight-control ...
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Why aren't angle-of-attack data sanity-checked before being fed to other aircraft systems?
For most fixed-wing aircraft, accurate angle-of-attack information is utterly essential for safe flight, due primarily to the risk of stalling the aircraft if the AoA of one or both of its wings ...
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Why would Boeing be under review if crew-error is determined to be the cause? [closed]
The captain on Lion air's flight 610, re-trimmed the aircraft through 21 MCAS activations. The first officer, who was given control of the aircraft, got 5 more. Although it is speculated that neither ...
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Is there an in-flight built-in-test in an airplane? [closed]
Is there any in-flight built-in-test in the airplanes separate from the in-flight monitoring?
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