RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash.
February 6, 2015 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 8:39 am by JuliaL.)
(February 5, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Experts were saying their best guess was one engine had trouble and the working engine will force the plane to dip to the weaker or no working engine, it is manageable but you need enough airspeed, stalls are nothing more than not having enough wind speed over the wing. The pilot made a split second decision to try to ditch the plane where he have the least damage.
And he probably screwed up. Asymmetrical thrust will cause the aircraft to yaw left, not roll left. The roll to the left was only indirectly caused by engine failure. It's not airspeed, it's exceeding the critical angle of attack for the airfoil. By insufficient airspeed or excessive nose up attitude he exceeded the critical angle and stalled the left wing first. It was the loss of lift of that wing that produced the roll to the left and total loss of control. If he was aiming for the riverbed, he didn't make it in a level attitude for his best chance of a survivable forced landing.
It is possible that the aircraft could not have been recovered. If he had no choice in the matter and bringing the nose down for more airspeed would have caused him to hit the buildings. A single engine out in a twin engine craft during climb out is about the worst possible case: You are making large amounts of thrust at relatively slow speeds so losing one engine produces the most asymmetry in thrust and the most yaw to the bad engine side. But aircraft are certified to be able to handle this situation if properly piloted. He didn't properly handle it.
Engine failure during takeoff
Quote:Infrequent as this might seem, engines do fail and a failure during takeoff has very serious safety of flight implications. The aerodynamic effects of the failure and the immediate actions by the flight crew, which are necessary to ensure an acceptable outcome, are similar to those in a light, twin engine aircraft. However, unlike their smaller cousins, the certification criteria for multi-engine transport category jet aircraft require that the aircraft be capable of achieving a specified minimum climb rate, that will ensure obstacle clearance, should an engine failure occur on takeoff.I'm sure that turboprops have similar requirements, though I didn't find them right away.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?