Pilot Tells Passengers to "pray", more BS logic.

[Brian37]

Unlike Sully, this idiot pilot broke protocol and needlessly scared the passengers. First off, prior to a plane taking off, a pilot takes thousands of hours of emergency training. And while planes do crash and people do die, the factories still do tons in redundancy so that when something goes wrong, the jet can still fly. Most jets are designed that they can if only two engines or three can still fly on one. Prayer did NOT get this jet back safely, design and pilot training did.

[Amarok]

And on this same day thousands in trouble prayed and died all the same. but hey he's "mysterious" and isn't "obligated "to help

[vorlon13]

although praying took their minds from pooping their pants

[Minimalist]

Or perhaps not.  Who knows what the cabin smelled like afterwards?

[Mermaid]

If the pilot of a plane asked me to pray, I'd wet my pants.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Stupid fucking pilot. When I'm on a plane and things go badly, I want my pilot to lie like a rug. If the plane is upside down, on fire, and spiraling downwards at terminal velocity, I STILL want to hear that calm, baritone voice saying something like, 'We are experiencing some minor turbulence, nothing unusual at this altitude.'

Seriously. Lie to me like you lie when you're trying to bang flight attendant Buffy.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

After watching the video, clearly one of the turbofans had an imbalanced fan. I wonder why an engine shutdown would not alleviate the severe vibrations? Can they not lock the fan in one position?

[Jackalope]

A few general observations not necessarily related to this particular scenario -

1. People who think prayer is valuable don't generally need to be told when to do so.
2. A pilot asking passengers to pray is going to heighten their awareness of a hazardous situation that they literally have no control over, and may cause a panic. In short, it's going to scare the shit out of them.
3. I personally would prefer a calm, reassuring voice right up until impact and the sweet release of death. I'm scared enough of flying on my own as it is, thankyouverymuch.

[vorlon13]

After watching the video, clearly one of the turbofans had an imbalanced fan. I wonder why an engine shutdown would not alleviate the severe vibrations? Can they not lock the fan in one position?

airflow kept the rotating group spinning

there really isn't a way to stop it with out jabbing a 4X4 in the front of the engine


usually/frequently loosing a fan blade will jam up the works enough, but not in this case

And the rotation speed seemed to be close to a vibration mode of the aircraft, so the bad effects were really pronounced

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, there was definitely some harmonic resonance going on. I suppose I'd always thought they had son sort of axial brake for situations like this.