SAA flight delayed over open oil valve

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Cape Town - Passengers on board an SAA flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town were left feeling a little rattled on Thursday after their take off was delayed due to an oil valve that had not been closed properly on the aircraft.

Netwerk24 reports that Mary-Ann de Villiers, one of the passengers on board the flight, described how the aircraft had already started taxiing toward the runway when it suddenly came to a standstill.

According to the report, a passenger in a neighbouring airplane noticed the open oil valve and alert authorities.

According to De Villiers the captain announced the delay shortly after he had brought the plane to a stop and told passengers that it could have caused an explosion had they continued with take-off.

After waiting on the tarmac for 40 minutes, the flight was finally cleared for takeoff and landed safely in Cape Town.
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http://traveller24.news24.com/News/Flights/SAA-flight-delayed-over-open-oil-valve-20141121
 
OMG! I hope it was not a black tech that did this .... because if he gets a talking to it is going to be totally RACIST!!!!!!! :mad:


:rolleyes:


Glad it was caught in time. Well done to that passenger.
 
If they had continued, the plane would have entered the runway, taken power for takeoff, received a master warning light for low oil pressure. Any warning of this nature warrants an immediate aborted takeoff. Plane stops. Non-event.

Even if the plane took off with oil spilling out, they would have soon realised, shut the engine down and landed with the remaining engine(s). The crew regularly train for this exact scenario. Non event.

I am getting really irritated by the media sensationalising stuff they know nothing about.
 
bromster said:
If they had continued, the plane would have entered the runway, taken power for takeoff, received a master warning light for low oil pressure. Any warning of this nature warrants an immediate aborted takeoff. Plane stops. Non-event.

Even if the plane took off with oil spilling out, they would have soon realised, shut the engine down and landed with the remaining engine(s). The crew regularly train for this exact scenario. Non event.

I am getting really irritated by the media sensationalising stuff they know nothing about.
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Thanks for the insights. Is this SOP for all airlines/pilots?
 
If anything goes wrong during take off before what is known as V1 (The speed at which the aircraft becomes committed to takeoff because you are running out of useable runway), the aircraft will abort takeoff. If anything happens after V1, the aircraft will take off and then decide whether or not to return based on what is wrong.

The V1 speed is carefully calculated before every takeoff. The procedures are dictated by the aircraft operating manuals and specific company procedures. Safety is never compromised. Takeoff and landing is when the crew is at their most alert.
 
gregmcc said:
No visual inspection before take off? No indicator lights? :wtf:
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Big mistakes on the ground can lead to huge tragedies. A Boeing in South America took off with its altitude sensors taped shut (to protect them from damage while plane was on the ground). The ground crew forgot to remove them. Plane crashed into the ocean soon after. No one survived.

In canada ground crew made a mistake converting pounds to kg after Boeing switched to metric. Plane took off with about half the fuel it needed to make the trip. It glided with no engines and made a emergency landing on a abaondoned (though being used by drag racers at the time of the landing) runway. Known as fondly in that country as the Gimli Glider


Gimli Glider
GimliGlider.jpg
 
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