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The Price of No Prist

Steve Scott

Monday, July 17th, 2006

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With Double Flame-outs, The Stress is Additive When a Pinnacle Airlines regional jet flamed out both engines in October 2004, it was ultimately revealed that the pilots had exceeded the performance envelope and simply demanded too much from their engines at too high an altitude and too low an airspeed. Unfortunately, their dead engines also had a known (but not to them) characteristic of not readily rotating, due to a high breakout friction attributable to very close-fitting blade tip tolerances…

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