The Split Second Decision That Sank A Jet | Trans Air Flight 810

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This is the story of trans air flight 810. Now if youve been watching this channel for a while then you probably know about the trans air flight 810, its the 737-200 that went down off of the coast of hawaii now we finally know what happened on that fateful flight. Let me walk you through what happened. On the second of july 2021, an old Boeing 737-200 was to fly from honolulu to Kahului airport. Once the crew got in the plane they got down to the nitty gritty for the flight. They talked about the weather, the performance imitations of the plane, and he talked to the cargo load manager about how the plane was loaded up. They got the balance sheets for the airplane and the pilots got what they needed to set out. But not before a walk around the plane. Thats when the first officer found some dried hydraulic on the right main landing gear. This was weird and cause for concern thats when they brought out a mechanic. They checked the hydraulic fluid reservoir and it was full. So they decided that the dried fluid was not a concern and that the flight could go on as planned. The pilots started both engines and then seeing that both engines were in the green. With the instruments checking out the pilots took the plane to runway 8R, once on the runway the first officer brought the engines up to an EPR value of 1.4 and then asked the captain to set the thrust for takeoff, he then did pushing the engines all the way upto an EPR value of 2.01, which was the takeoff thrust for this takeoff. Then the tower cleared them for takeoff, the first officer who was the one in control of the plane acknowledged and then the plane was off. As the plane barreled down the runway, the captain noticed that the temprature of the gases exiting the engines were right on the border of the green and yellow bands meaning taht they were in the green but by the smallest of margins. To the captain this looked good and he said engines stable, the first officer pushed on with the takeoff. Soon they went past their V1 speed and then the V2 speed and before long The ancient 737 picked up speed down the runway and then took off into the dark night of Hawaii for the short hop. They stayed on the runway heading of 080 degrees for a bit. Then just seconds after takeoff a thud was heard both pilots knew exactly what had happened they had lost an engine. The right hand engine seemed to be the one in trouble. This was bad they were only 390 feet off of the water and they needed to gain altitude fast. As they watched the power generated by the right hand engine dropped, the EPR for the right hand engine went from 2.01 to about 1.43. This obviously caused a lot of concern for the pilots. The pilots fought to level the plane as one of their engines gave out and they did a good job of that,but there was still the matter of getting this plane back to the runway. As the captain retract the flaps he noticed that the power on the left hand engine reduced just a bit. Their biggest aim right now was to get the stricken 737 to a safe altitude. They were at 1200 feet and they needed to get to 2000 feet and maintain that. Somehow they coaxed the wounded jet upto an altitude of 2107 feet. But then the unthinkable happened the power on engine number one, the left hand engine started to fail the power fell from 1.91 to 1.83, 1.53, and 1.23 over the span of one minute and 17 seconds. While all of this was unfolding the pilots and the controller were having a bit of confusion the captain said ““we’ve lost an engine…we are on a two twenty heading…maintaining two thousand [ft]…declaring emergency.”After this transmission, the CVR recorded the controller stating, “say again heading two four zero.” but this second transmission was for another plane in the vicinity. But the controller immediately cleared flight 810 for a straight in approach to runway 4R but the pilots were not ready for that they told the controller that they needed some time to run a few checklists. That makes all the sense in the world. This was a fully loaded 737 low to the ground on one engine, making a one engined approach to the airport without the proper procedures