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Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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299 points cjr | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bob1029 ◴[11 Jul 25 21:33 UTC] No.44536975[source]▶
> The EGT was observed to be rising for both engines indicating relight. Engine 1’s core deceleration stopped, reversed and started to progress to recovery. Engine 2 was able to relight but could not arrest core speed deceleration and re-introduced fuel repeatedly to increase core speed acceleration and recovery.

I know it's probably not worth the hazmat tradeoff for such a rare event, but the F-16 has an EPU powered by hydrazine that can spool up in about a second.

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SJC_Hacker ◴[12 Jul 25 02:16 UTC] No.44538748[source]▶
The only solution I can think of is emergency parachutes. Like lots of them. would also be useful for other types of in air engine/control failures.

At least it worked for me on Kerbal Space Program. At least sometimes.

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1. burnt-resistor ◴[12 Jul 25 04:11 UTC] No.44539233[source]▶
Wouldn't be able to save a fully-loaded 787 in low & slow conditions because the area of canopies needed to deploy would be several acres. And they'd add several tonnes.