UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

[T/O w/FSII]

It looks like engine two started to stabilize right at the end. They almost had it.

We looking at the same graph? I’m seeing a sharp roll back.

 

[MikeD]

Are these down-status MDs, especially the ones stuck remote somewhere, at least getting started up and run for a bit just to keep systems working, or no?

 

[phill1174]

Are these down-status MDs, especially the ones stuck remote somewhere, at least getting started up and run for a bit just to keep systems working, or no?

Idk about FedEx or WGA but Brown was doing that initially to avoid a lot of problems when they entered service again. Since they’ve wrapped them up for long term storage idk.

 

[BlueMoon]

The one I just saw had what looked likeplywood over the windshields, so I think not.

 

[FlyingAccountant]

We looking at the same graph? I’m seeing a sharp roll back.

I'm assuming that sharp drop off on the far right of the graph is the crash.

 

[BlueMoon]

N1 on ENG 3 didn’t drop like ENG 2 does

 

[DropTank]

a 12% surge on N1 is significant.
#2 was likely eating itself alive.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Are these down-status MDs, especially the ones stuck remote somewhere, at least getting started up and run for a bit just to keep systems working, or no?

They had power on one in SJU doing some kind of routine mx maybe three weeks ago? OTOH, there are six or seven sitting in front of the hangar in SDF that look pretty static.

 

[phill1174]

I’ll always wonder if they had gotten that thing to fly would they have made it around the pattern or at the very least back to 11 with the fire on the left wing. I’d like to think so but…

 

[knot4u]

Short term storage and long term storage are very different. For long term storage many fluids may need to be drained and a preservative fluid run through the system, be it engine/apu oil, fuel or hydraulic fluid. I was very busy during the pandemic, not only because everyone decided to get their big inspections done while the airplanes weren't flying, but because the folks that wanted their airplanes sitting idle but also still ready to go needed weekly runs. I'd spend whole days doing nothing but pulling covers, running engines and exercising as many systems as possible on the ground on multiple airplanes. I don't know anything about a MD-11 but I'd guess if they're all taped up like they're sitting in a boneyard they've been prepped for long term storage and it will take a bit of work to get them flying again if/when that time comes.