FAA Begins Early Inspection of Allegiant Air Operations

Interesting. Glad the crew recovered it safely! Sounds like that engine was on its way out at the worst moment possible. Had it not happened on the go around, could it have not been possible for the catastrophic engine failure to occur on the subsequent takeoff if they hadn't gone around?
 
Derg said:
Ours do, AFAIK. There's some specific time, but I'm not sure.

"We've got two motors!"

@PeanuckleCRJ?
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Let me rephrase... At AAY the ignition does not come on with flap/slap extension nor will it come on unless manually selected. Ignition only comes on automatically if the FADEC sense a loss of EIU or during a flameout. To throw more fuel on the fire when Engine Anti-Ice is selected ignition does not automatically come on either. AAY has CFM engines... Perhaps there is a difference between them and the IAE's?
 
Forgot AAY had the CFM A319s. Wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing the reverser cowlings rip off stories from them....
 
I'm confused. The flightaware record the article links to clearly says it was an MD80 (matches with flight number, date, origin and destination as well). Am I missing something?
 
flybywp said:
I'm confused. The flightaware record the article links to clearly says it was an MD80 (matches with flight number, date, origin and destination as well). Am I missing something?
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Not sure. The flight number shows MD80, as does 311NV in flight aware, but doing an FAA records search, 311NV is clearly an A319.
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
For CFM engines, it automatically comes on with engine start (no shiite), delayed engine start (no shiite), engine anti-ice, EIU failure, and engine failure. Not for flaps extension.
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Except on ours we have a "mod" that keeps the ignition off when we turn the anti-ice on... I've had the anti-ice on a number of times and have yet to see the "IGNITION" ECAM be displayed.
 
z987k said:
Why would they do that?
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Something to do with either GE or Airbus finding that the design of the engine was such a way that the utilization of the ignition system when using the anti ice system was simply overkill thus increasing wear and tear on the ingnition system uneccesarily.
 
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