What went wrong???

[savage]

Hi,

Climbing to FL380, arround FL320, I hear a *loud* BANG. That's it. Declared emergency, decended below 10000ft (just incase it was
decompression), and proceeded to the nearest airport for emergency landing. Landed very rough (but safely and in one piece), ended
the flight, looked at my report... Well yes. I did the right thing for declaring my emergency and landing, but absolutely NO info on the report
as to what the actual problem was????


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Flight CNA320 End of flight report Date August 27 2005

Flight ID: CNA320
Pilot: Chris Knipe
Company: Cenergy Airways
Aircraft: PSS A330-200 GE House
Flight Date: August 27 2005
Departure: 12h22 (10h23 GMT)
Arrival: 13h15 (11h15 GMT)
From: FAJS - Johannesburg Intl - South Africa
To: FABL - Bloemfontein - South Africa
Nbr of Passengers: 153

Incident Report:

The pilot over pitched the aircraft upon landing and the tail struck the ground. The pilot was able to land the aircraft safely. The Captain
has also declared an emergency before landing.


Report:

Flight Distance: 206 Nm Landing Speed: 117.92 kt
Time Airborne: 00h42:33 Landing Touchdown: -85.4 ft/m (kiss)
Flight Time (block): 00h51:15 Landing Pitch: 9.12°
Time On Ground: 00h08:50 Landing Weight: 396891 lbs
Average Speed: 291.07 kt Total Fuel Used: 12053 lbs
Max. Altitude: FL 340 Fuel Not Used: 36780 lbs
Climb Time: 00h11:58 Climb Fuel Used: 6657 lbs
Cruise Time: 00h10:02 Cruise Fuel Used: 2328 lbs
Average Cruise Speed: 457.55 kt (M0.73) Cruise fuel/hour: 13927 lbs (calc)
Descent Time: 00h20:33 Descent Fuel Used: 3066 lbs


Passenger Opinion: Terror and grief. (0%)
-Were in a better mood because they had food.
-Were pleased by the music on ground. A very nice addition to their flying experience.
-Were irritated by the excess G-forces. (+2.10 0.06).
-Didn't like that some passengers started flying around the cabin caused by your negative G flying.
-Were angry because you made what seemed to be a dangerous landing.
-Were anxious because they heard a loud sound coming from the rear of the aircraft upon landing.
-Were very anxious because of the problem during flight.
-Were relieved to land safely after an emergency.

Financial Report:

Ticket Income: +$30,469 (206 Nm)
Cargo Income: +$58,822 (112997 lbs)
Services Income: +$0 (0 sandwich 0 hot food 0 drink)
Services Cost: -$0 (80% quality)
Fuel Cost: -$8,429 (12053 lbs Jet-A1)
Airport Taxes: -$608 (Heavy Aircraft)
Insurance Costs: -$3,857 (4.32% rate)
Total Real Income: $76,397
Total Income: $3,819,850 (real x50)
Fleet Bonus: $0 (2 aircraft ,1 grounded for maintenance,no flights today)
Total Sim Income: $3,819,850 (total income+fleet bonus)

Company Reputation:

Considering that the flight was horrible,the tickets price high,and there was no service aboard,passengers on this flight think that your
company's reputation should be 0%
Your company reputation is now: 85% (-8.57 decrease)


Overall Flight Result: Horrible

Pilot Bonus points: 100 points
You made a very smooth landing. (+50)
There was a problem aboard and you declared an emergency. (+50 only you caused the problem)

Pilot's Penalty points: -1600 points
Performing dangerous manoeuvres in flight while the passengers don't have their seat belts fastened is criminal. (-400)
Exceeding maximum speed of this aircraft is very dangerous. (-600)
You performed dangerous maneuvres while the crew was serving passengers. (-300)
You flared too much on landing and your tail struck the ground. (-300)

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So uhm... Yea... What went wrong here????

[Dutch64]

No idea, i don't think decompression though because you will hear the wind blowing all the time in that case

[jboweruk]

The bang may have been a stewardess' trolley? You hit the tail on landing though, don't wanna be doing that. :D

[savage]

Wouldn't have been a trolly. Otherwise I would have been penalised for declaring the emergency.... Something definately happened

[SaVas]

Maybe your tail struck the ground upon takeoff?

There was a problem aboard and you declared an emergency. (+50 only you caused the problem)

Maybe the emergency took effect after you landed? Could be a bug issue, not quite sure. You declared an emergency before it happened,
hit the tail on landing creating an emergency. Only thing I can think of since thats the only thing in the flight report that says anything about
what might be the problem

First time I heard a bang in flight it was the flight attendant bringing me coffee

[savage]

Hmmm... Didn't see the "you caused the problem" part... Perhaps I did something then through all *my* terror and grief

I do know about the bang caused by the flight attendants, but this was different. This almost sounded like a tire poping, or a window or a
engine blowing up.... Naturally, looking at the instruments I saw no problems, I should have just trusted my gut and gone on with the flight.

Just went through all the fsp sounds, and the sound I heard is not there... So it must have been something else. It's just strange though,
bcos pax fear went up 20% odd after the 'bang', and 30% (as normal), after declaring the emergency.... But oh well.

Obviously this wasn't a FSP failure then....

[AeroJim]

Very odd, remember you can check to see if you have emergencies by turning the feature on in your mini-report.

[pagir]

Maybe the "bang" was coming from your home and not the computer... Did you check your windows?

Maybe you triggered yourself the emergency after the bang when flying down, with all your pax flying around and all the dangerous
manoeuvres...

Pagir