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Mesaba Plane Has Engine Problems

SYfan100 From United States of America, joined May 2008, 587 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2429 times:

A Mesaba plane taking off from the Hibbing Airport had engine problems the other day.
The plane did not get 2 miles away from the airport before returning do to problems.
Plane landed just fine even though emergency crews did rush to the airport.
Channel 5 has a small story about it.

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Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19694 posts, RR: 56
Reply 1, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2373 times:

Quoting SYfan100 (Thread starter):
Hibbing

Which would make it a Saab.

Glad to hear all went well.

-Mir

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KarlB737 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2925 posts, RR: 9
Reply 2, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2354 times:

Quoting SYfan100 (Thread starter):
Channel 5 has a small story about it.

Courtesy: KSTP-TV

Mesaba Flight To Mpls. Has Engine Failure

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S750359.shtml?cat=1

Azjubilee From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 3555 posts, RR: 30
Reply 3, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2354 times:

Compressor stall due to extreme cold temps seemed to be the culprit from what I understand.

SYfan100 From United States of America, joined May 2008, 587 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 2047 times:

Those Northern Minnesota temps can get even more ugly then the Twin Cities at times.

PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6867 posts, RR: 29
Reply 5, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1980 times:

There was a sidebar in the Petoskey paper on Friday here that said that an XJ Saab took off from PLN Thursday morning and had to immediately return after takeoff due to engine problems.

It was the 6:15am departure for the RON aircraft and I believe the temp was at least -10 in the "ice box of the nation"

SYfan100 From United States of America, joined May 2008, 587 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1953 times:

Thankfully temps will be warmer for a bit this week in the 30s pretty much in Minnesota so the planes won't get beat up to much.
Curious though to see what happens if those planes have anymore problems this week or not.
You always hope it is just weather related and not something that would end up grounding them for awhile.

Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7411 posts, RR: 9
Reply 7, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1829 times:

Quoting SYfan100 (Reply 4):
Those Northern Minnesota temps can get even more ugly then the Twin Cities at times

Most of the time it does, last week here in GFK which is essentually the same we were about 10-20 degrees colder than MSP, we were at -43 without windchill last week.

"Some People Just Know How To Fly"- Best slogan ever, RIP NW 1926-2009

KLASM83 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 584 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1809 times:

Quoting Burnsie28 (Reply 7):
GFK which is essentually the same we were about 10-20 degrees colder than MSP, we were at -43 without windchill last week

With the cold, and all the CRJ cold weather problems, makes me wonder why NW has been sending 9E up so much. The 5am and 3pm outbounds are all the CRJ now. The irony of a Canadian built aircraft not fairing so well in (upper) Canadian like temps.

Back on topic, however glad the XJ airplane made it back to the airfield ok. Heck at these temps, I wouldn't want to go out either.

[Edited 2009-01-18 22:33:41]

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Avt007 From Canada, joined Jul 2000, 2131 posts, RR: 5
Reply 9, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1687 times:

Quoting Azjubilee (Reply 3):
Compressor stall due to extreme cold temps seemed to be the culprit from what I understand

What is your source for this? I have never heard of a serviceable engine having a compressor stall due to low temperatures.

Brandonfs88 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 176 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1615 times:

When i worked in MQT during the cold weather we had 2 options; 1. leave the plane at the gate with a heater cord plugged in for the engines, 2. tow the plane down to the hanger if significant snowfall was going to fall that night or already was.

KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12022 posts, RR: 43
Reply 11, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1600 times:

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The plane ferried to MSP the next day, so nothing major.

911, where is your emergency?

Azjubilee From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 3555 posts, RR: 30
Reply 12, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1416 times:

My source is the company, its memos and current saab pilots. Special measures are taken for compressor stall avoidance in the mornings, when it's cold. I guess the cold was too cold for an ECS takeoff for that CT7s. Similar incidents on two other planes occurred recently as well.

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