Exciting times on a Monday morning Delta flight

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 09/11/2019 at 11:29 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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I’m guessing some mechanics from SLC threw a spare engine in the back of a truck and headed to Missoula on Monday afternoon. This has never happened to me on a flight but did happen to my pilot friend about a month ago on a SWA 737.

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ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 11:41

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He also said after the flight landed without incident, that the pilot said they lost the number one engine on the right side at 18,500 feet.

Well, I certainly hope they will be able to find it. Those things are expensive. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 11:44

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I’ll ask my mom, it might have fallen out somewhere over her house. I’m familiar with this route.

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 11:45

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Paging f86sabre, f86sabre to the front please!

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 11:47

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I was expecting to hear about another in-flight Thunderdome. 

smobgirl > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 11:50

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I’ve never, in 12 years of flying constantly for work, been diverted for a mechanical issue. I’ve had one un scheduled landing when Albuquerque was closed for fog and we ran out of fuel while circling so had to land at Santa Fe instead. Frontier doesn’t have a contract at Santa Fe so we couldn’t just refuel, plus the plane was too big to take off again fully loaded. Also they wouldn’t let anyone off the plane without Frontier personnel to unload luggage. Eventually about half the plane got off and either rented cars there or took an airline-provided bus back to Albuquerque  and the handful of us who had time to kill stayed on the plane. The whole situation was pretty funny (but it helped that I had time to spare and we were all safe).

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 11:52

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Also...isn’t the number 1 engine on the left side? I mean, that may be why he lost  it on the right side!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > smobgirl 09/11/2019 at 11:57

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My pilot friend has >20 years of flying and this was the first time he had to shut down an engine and it didn’t explode, it just lost oil pressure. They let them rest overnight and then he had to fly the next day.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 12:05

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If they kept going, the tail might’ve fallen off.

HammerheadFistpunch > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 12:05

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and here I was telling my wife about this flight and trying to talk her into it.  Great.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 09/11/2019 at 12:11

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It’s a good flight I’ve taken it 20-30 times. In the winter they switch from Airbus to Embraer  175's. I think it’s about 1h 45 minutes wheels up to wheels down and there isn’t any traffic in Kalispell.

lone_liberal > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 12:15

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You forgot to mention the really big news on that site . Someone parked their house on I90.

smobgirl > lone_liberal 09/11/2019 at 12:19

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Beautiful views, expansive parking - plenty of space for an RV! Some traffic noise.

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 09/11/2019 at 12:19

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That’s right. Obviously, he was looking in the wrong place.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/11/2019 at 12:19

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What is that reference?

lone_liberal > smobgirl 09/11/2019 at 12:21

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Location, location, location! 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > smobgirl 09/11/2019 at 12:23

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Abq being closed for fog would be a pretty rare occurrence. That actually happens more in Southern NM with the occasional freezing fog on winter mornings , although that’s still to say it is a rare thing.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > lone_liberal 09/11/2019 at 12:24

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Ran when parked?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > lone_liberal 09/11/2019 at 12:24

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It looks like they tried a U turn using an emergency vehicle cut through?

Ash78, voting early and often > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 12:26

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Probably Valerie Plame

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 12:27

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The engine didn’t pay the extra $30 for an assigned nacelle and got kicked off.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 12:37

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A movie called No Highway In The Sky . It’s a Nevil Shute adaptation with, as you can see, Marlene Dietrich and Jimmy Stewart - also Glynis Johns and Jack Hawkins. A catastrophic metal fatigue plotline years before the Comet.

lone_liberal > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 12:41

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I think you’re right. I guess the driver thought that his truck would handle going down the embankment? 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > lone_liberal 09/11/2019 at 12:43

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This is totally unnecessary , there are two exits about 1 mile from where this truck got stuck and they easily could have turned around there.

smobgirl > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/11/2019 at 12:47

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It was pretty wild. We actually aborted a landing attempt and then we were told they were on a ground stop. Since we were coming from Denver I’d guess it was pretty sudden or they wouldn’t have let us leave. It was definitely an early flight though.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/11/2019 at 13:16

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*Spock fascinating*

I’ll have to look for that.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/11/2019 at 13:16

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I understood that reference.

At least the engine didn’t tweet about it first.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 13:25

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It’s not quite as good as it sounds, but it is good. I bought it on DVD because it wasn’t on Prime.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/11/2019 at 13:53

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Can I borrow it?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 13:54

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Absolutely, if I come and Oppo Meet in Tejas some time.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/11/2019 at 14:34

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Well, I wasn’t entirely serious, but thank you. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 14:38

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I gave BiTurbo a book on a visit , and Cowden is a lot further away than Austin, so you never know.

Sammyno55 > smobgirl 09/11/2019 at 16:50

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I’vebeen flying for b usiness since 2003 (I just landed in ATL 30 minutes ago and am on the train). In my many flights, I’ve only had 2 anomalies. The first was a landing gear not indicating down. The pilot came on the PA and explained it. We did a SLOW flyby of the tower and then circled before landing. The gear was down all was good. The second was an inflight reduction of power during landing and the plane yawed quite a bit. This flight was a stop in a 2 leg flight. I stayed on the plane (MD-80 I think) while they took the nacelle off the engine and worked on it for 45 minutes. They gave the option to deplane. I stayed and watched and the flight crew sat with me to watch as well . The majority of the passengers booked other flights. They had it fixed and ready to go before the next flight left. I flew the last leg that day with only a dozen people on the plane. 

f86sabre > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/11/2019 at 22:01

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I had that happen once. ATL-SEA. We ended up in Chicago over night. 

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 09/11/2019 at 22:03

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Ha. I am aware of this aircraft.

Keep an eye out for N543US on the 15th or 16th.