![]() ![]() If the vote is in favor of a strike, both parties must meet the national mediation board (NMB). So, the truth is, if the FAA, the NTSB had acted quicker and with more urgency after that first event in August 2016, this event might not have happened.There’s still a lot that needs to happen in order for the pilots to cross a picket line. Southwest was among the airlines who resisted that call and said they just needed more time to do it and had not done those inspections. Subsequent to that, the manufacturer of the engine, CFM, which is a joint venture between GE and the French jet engine maker Safran, sent out a service bulletin to the airlines who had these engines and said, hey, you probably should do some ultrasound testing of these fan blades to make sure there are no cracks, because they're not necessarily visible. The aircraft got on the ground safely, but exactly the same thing happened, with metal fatigue as the cause, and that fan blade being spit out like a hot, fast piece of shrapnel. Well, what's most significant, Judy, is there is a hauntingly parallel incident that happened, same airline, same type of aircraft, same type of engine, in August of 2016. And you have to wonder, as we look toward the future of airline flying, if the civilian training may want to up its game a little bit. And the military is hanging on to these pilots longer because it's very expensive to lose them.Īnd so we have to wonder if the civilian training doesn't quite match the military training in some respects. There are fewer of them in general, fewer cockpits in the military. And it really matters the most when the chips are down, as we saw the other day in Philadelphia.Īs time goes on, there are fewer of these pilots moving into the airline world. ![]() I think the common thread here is both these pilots were trained by the military, in case of Sullenberger the Air Force, in Tammie Jo Shults' case the Navy.įor years, for decades, the airlines have benefited from the most amazing pilot training in the world done by military, essentially free training. Yes, a lot of people have been making comparisons to Sully Sullenberger and his landing in the Hudson River a few years back. ![]() Landing an F-18 on an aircraft carrier at night in bad weather is not for faint of heart, but this was certainly no walk in the park, and she did it perfectly. I suspect, given her Navy background, she's been in some tight situations. Tammie Jo Shults proved what a great pilot she is. And they had to sort through those checklists simultaneously, while, all at once, the aircraft steeply banking to the left 45 degrees because of the loss of thrust and the extra drag caused by the explosion in the engine, and on top of that having to get down as quickly as possible to an altitude of 10,000 feet, where the air is thick enough for people to breathe.Īnd yet what you hear on the radio on the other side of that cockpit door was as routine as it gets, calm, cool, collected. Those are two emergencies that flight crews train for and learn by memory what to do. Judy, the flight crew had an awful lot going on at once, two major emergencies simultaneously, a presumed engine fire, the loss of an engine, all that goes along with that, and an explosive rapid decompression, all that goes along with that. ![]()
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