Belavia Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Russia Due To Engine Failure
- 30.07.2024, 11:11
The passengers made it to Kutaisi with a delay of 12 hours.
Passengers of the Belavia flight from Minsk to Kutaisi arrived at their destination with a 12-hour delay due to an emergency landing in the Russian Astrakhan. This was reported by the telegram channel about aviation of ‘OtVinta’.
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The landing in Astrakhan was caused by the failure of engine number 2. The captain of the aircraft requested a descent, announced an urgency signal and made the decision to land at an unscheduled aerodrome.
‘In the afternoon, the passengers were already taken to Georgia by a substitute Embraer E195LR aircraft (registration number EW-514PO). As a result, they arrived in Kutaisi with a deviation from the schedule by more than 12 hours,’ writes OtVinta.
In a comment to the publication, another plane captain noted the professional actions of the Belavia crew.
‘It is clear that there is a serious incident. More serious than the burst tyre on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 Belavia in November last year. After all, engine failure dramatically lowers the redundancy threshold, which leads to some changes in piloting technique. And if a tyre has burst, the hell with it, it is not the only one on the ‘bogie’,’ the interlocutor said.
The pilot emphasised that the failure of one engine out of 2-4 has the effect of ‘asymmetric thrust, which can be extinguished by a small roll or glide’.
‘In the passenger cabin, many people do not feel any changes in the configuration of the flight. The only thing is that the sound (tone) of the running engines changes slightly. When all engines fail, the proud airliner turns into a banal glider (not every pilot has experience in glider piloting and gets lost in such a situation, but the procedure is worked out on simulators) and begins to descend at a certain speed and angle of descent. Safe landing in this case is very unlikely. Remember the case of Tu-154 about 15 years ago, it landed safely in the Siberian taiga with the failure of three engines. Landing variants with failed engines (all of them) are practised with pilots on simulators. We can assume that the pilots are ready for such a turn of events,’ the interlocutor said.