Southwest Flight 1380 - Mentour Special

hi everybody welcome to mentor and another video podcast as always I hope you're doing absolutely fantastic today on the podcast I'm doing a special regarding what happened on the Southwest flight 1380 yesterday where they suffered a what looks like an uncontained engine failure followed by a rapid depressurization okay so those of you who have been following my channel knows that I normally do not comment on any incidents that happens that hasn't had the full investigation concluded and the only reason I'm doing a little bit of a sidestep from that today is because I got a lot of questions from concerned viewers yesterday a lot of people who have the matter aviation app sent message to me and through Instagram Twitter and Facebook so I'm gonna give you a little bit of a synopsis of what happened or at least what we know has happened and I'm gonna talk a little bit about training the training the pilot goes through to deal with events like this and I'm also gonna give you my opinion what I think about this but I want to emphasize that we are still not sure what exactly happened and we are waiting the natural Transport Safety Board final review which is gonna take a lot of time so stay tuned [Music] right guys so what happened yesterday on the 17th of April 2018 if you're watching this later on was that the Southwest Airlines flight 13 80 from New York from LaGuardia Airport to Dallas was climbing up through flight of a320 which is thirty two thousand feet when they suffered a severe damage to the number one engine that's the engine on the left-hand side okay the debris from the engine failure pierced one of the windows in the in fuselage and caused a rapid depressurization the aircrew managed to deal with all of this and they decided to divert to Philadelphia where they landed and unfortunately as part of the shrapnel that pierces the the cabin hit one of the passengers a female passenger that was almost sucked out of the of the end of the aircraft and she got so badly injured that she actually died and that is the first death in commercial aviation in America since 2009 ok very sad but what I want to focus on in this episode it was what was done right and what we can learn from it so um the difference between a contained engine failure and an uncontained and your failure is that all jet engines are designed to make sure that engine failures are contained inside of the engine ok this means that they're designed with a engine ring for example that is supposed to be able to take up any fan blade that gets loose and basically anything is supposed to be able to happen inside of the jet engine and it should not be spreading part towards the sides it should if anything shoot out any debris through the back of the engine through the engine outlet ok so that's a contained engine failure and that's what all that's what all engine manufacturers are striving to encase on an your failure to now on uncontained in your failures when all of these safety nets fail and part of the engine is actually being flung out outside of the engine cowling and of course what can happen then is it can cause damage to the wing the fuselage or any part of the aircraft really so from a flight crew training point of view you have to understand that we on our on every six month when we go into the simulator we train different scenarios okay and these scenarios do include every single time engine failures now they're different types of engine failures the the any failure that will be practiced some of the times is an engine spool down that's when an engine just flames out for whatever reason it might because of lack of fuel or might be because of some fuel contaminants or something wrong inside of the engine anyway an engine flameout it's just that it just stops driving and it just rotates down and stops okay the that still causes problems when it comes to handling because especially if you are a take of trust or like the guys had yesterday you're inclined trusts there will be a lot of trust being taking out both engines and if one suddenly fails the other one is still running you're gonna have what's called a symmetric trust that means that the engine that's still running is going to push the aircraft towards the side of the dead engine and that in causes or handling problems the pilots have to be fairly quick with counteracting that with rudder input now if you're interested in knowing how we deal with any affairs of the takeoff I've done an engine failure collection inside of the mentor aviation app so you can go and get the app and you can check out exactly what we're supposed to do okay the other type of engine failure that we're training is what's called a engine severe damage and this is what the crew of Southwest Airlines flight yesterday had that is when something goes badly wrong with one of the engine components so it might be for example a fan blade that gets loose which seems to be the case in this case or you might have a seizure of the fan we're just stubbornly stops or something else that is catastrophic inside of the engine happens now on and you're severe damage has what's called memory items this means that the crew when we get to the indications of a severe damage which we will see on our engine instrumentation or if we have a fire indication the crew has to do a certain number of steps by memory to secure the engine and make sure that the whatever failure they've had does not get worse that includes turning off the auto total closing the related to trust lever making sure that they're using the correct trust level by the way so they're not reducing the wrong one turning off the engine fuel supply with the engine start lever and then pulling the engine fire warning switch which will cut hydraulic fluids and fuel to the engine among other things and also if they have a fire warning which the crew actually had yesterday even though there's no sign of a fire so it's likely that it was a false warning if there is a fire warning that we are also supposed to turn the engine fire switch to release the Heylin extinguisher into the engine and hopefully that will extinguish the fire wait 30 seconds and then turn it the other way if the few if the fire is still going but also the memory items with an Indian severe damage and your fire severe damage to separation okay also the memory items so we do practice all of this okay now the crew yesterday also had a rapid depressurization because of the shrapnel that actually pierced the cabin that is a different exercise so we trained that as well every well not every time actually but at least every three years which we trained it in the simulator and normal it's more than that and obviously as part of our initial training now a rapid depressurization also has to be dealt with fairly quickly there are also memory items that has to be done because at an altitude of 32,000 feet there will not be enough pressure in the outside air for the human body to absorb oxygen okay it will absorb it but not as well as it will up to the ground this means that unless you get oxygen you will lose consciousness very quickly so there are ways and I'm not going to go through all of the memory writings here but I have done a briefing on this okay if you check out the link up here you'll see my briefing video on how to deal with a rapid depressurization now the problem here is that this crew yesterday they faced both of these failures at the same time and we do not practice these failures together right we very rarely practice multiple failures because we want to make sure that each and everything is done correctly this means that the crew yesterday had to show something which is called resilience it means that they can because of their training because of their experience combined knowledge and prioritize what to do in the correct order even though they now had two different failures that are unrelated to each other supposedly they are related in this case but normally it's not trained together they can still manage to get the aircraft a flying safely which means applying rudder making sure that they don't lose control of the aircraft B get the aircraft down to an altitude where everyone can breathe which includes the rapid depressurization and the emergency descent no normal checklist and then deal with whatever other failures that can come from this so in this case they had damage to the wings the leading-edge devices they had injured passengers severely injured passengers in the cabin so in this case the flight crew in this case captain Tammy Joe Schultz was faced with a lot a barrage of different failures and different inputs okay and she and her copilot which I don't know the name of unfortunately had to kind of sort all of this deal with it one by one and get the aircraft safely down on the ground which is always the ultimate goal when something like this happens now flight crew are trained like I said on all of these different things but you never know as a pilot how you are going to react until you're faced with something like this and most of us can go out our entire career without ever being faced with something like this alright what the crew showed yesterday was what happens when you have a very skilled flight crew and cabbing because the communication between cabin from the flight crew would have been crucial yesterday otherwise the flight crew would not know about the damage right they would know that they had a failure because they would see that on their end a mr. implementation they would know that they had a problem with purser sation but they wouldn't know the extent of the damages nor would they know about the injuries in the back so the whole crew worked as a team the flight crew obviously did their things in the right order because otherwise they wouldn't be here today and they dealt with it in a way that this actually this isn't is actually very similar to what happened to captain solid when he and his and his first officer landed the aircraft in the Hudson River it might not look as dramatic on the onset of it but it is just as dramatic believe me okay so what is what you see here is crew well-trained crew dealing with things in a resilient way in a way that is very very impressive and I can only say kudos to the flight training department and Southwest Airlines and the crew on the day okay they did the job very very well in my opinion now well actually I will start with the questions that I got yesterday so I got lots of questions through Facebook and Instagram and Twitter okay the the first question and the most common question I got was should the should the airlines reinforce the windows to make sure that this doesn't happen and the answer that is that we don't know yet all right the National Transport Safety Board the NTSB is still going to come with the recommendations once they've done the full investigation but it's unlikely that that is going to be one of the the things they will do it's more likely that they will focus on the containment ring of the engine to make sure that this you know the shrapnel being spread doesn't happen and of course making sure that you know whatever caused the fan blade to get loose doesn't happen again because if you think about it if you reinforce the windows then the next time something like this happens the shrapnel might not pierce the window it might just pierce the skin the body of the aircraft next to the window and that reinforcement didn't have any kind of effect now the second question that I got yesterday was how do you react when you see something like this and of course since this is a 737-700 and i fly the 77 800 would exactly the same type of engine I do pay very close attention but something that's happened I'm gonna be very interested in seeing what the investigation reveals and you can be absolutely sure that if it turns out that there is an issue with this type of engine then all well the engine manufacturer is gonna have to do something about it and every single operator and would operate this type of engine is likely to have to go through some kind of added maintenance check to make sure that there's no metal fatigue issues for example in the fan blades okay so those were the most common questions that I got yesterday my opinion about this is just like I said it is it's tragic whenever something like this happens my thought goes out to the injured passengers and to the family of the deceased passenger but what I can say is that you know how in the news every time that there is there is an accident where something where human factors are being stated it's always on the negative side people always say well this accident was caused by human factors now in this case what I want to really emphasize here is when human factors stops the chain from going bad okay and this is what you see here captain Schulz and her crew effectively used human factors to make sure that this aircraft came safely down on the ground and this is something that I really want to emphasize because human factors is much more often a positive thing than it is a negative thing it's just that anytime you see it in conjunction with a failure of some sort or an accident it's on the negative side so pay close attention to how they dealt to this problem and that's the main lesson I want you guys to take away from this guy's if you have more questions about this I don't know much more about this than you do I'm just following the investigation as it unfolds but you can send in questions I will try to answer whatever I can like I said check out the briefing videos I did both about how to deal with an engine failure on takeoff how to deal with a rapid depressurization in more the descent and go into the mentor aviation app you can talk to other users there but what their opinions are and also you can see some of the news events that are that work and you know transmitted yesterday about this and you can get the instructional video in full 360 you'll be able to see how a trained flight crew Dean's with an engine failure of the table have an absolutely fantastic day wherever you are [Music]

Channel: Mentour Pilot

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Keywords: aviation, southwest airlines, southwest 1380, Flight 1380, NW1380, Avgeek, Aviation facts, How aviation works, Mentour, Mentour pilot, flight, flying, how flying works, flight incident, Boeing, CFM 56, Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737NG, Boeing 737MAX, Airbus, Airbus 320, Airbus 380, Boeing 777, Philadelphia, engine failure, fan blade

Id: EzkfYj6SBxo

Length: 15min 18sec (918 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 18 2018