Terror aboard United Airlines Boeing 787 after pilot's screens went blank

[red750]

Boeing's troubled 787 faces yet another safety concern as a United Airlines plane was forced to make an unplanned landing after cockpit navigation screens failed.

 

There was slight panic in the cockpit on during a flight from Los Angeles to London as both the captain's primary flight and navigation displays failed to a blank screen. 

 

While flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet in a remote region over Canada's frigid and inhospitable Hudson Bay, the plane's flight management computers entered 'a degraded mode with limited capabilities,' Transportation Safety Board of Canada reported.

 

The report added that the commercial plane was left without lateral navigation - or LNAV - an autopilot mode that involves following a programmed flight path. 

[Deano747]

Sensationalised media reporting .........only panic from professional pilots would have been where to eat that night in a strange city.

Losing a few screens is not a drama.

Other screens are switchable and funnily enough, autopilots don't need any screens to still work.

They lost LNAV - oh dear, imagine having to rely on radar vectors (or GPS) and use your heading bug; whatever next.

Losing multiple screens was par for the course in early days of the 767 and 744 as was the FMC dumping all data so you lost VNAV as well as LNAV.

Worst case that I heard of was on an Australian based international airline that lost all 4 primary screens just after take off so reverted to standby AI, ASI, altimeter, E2B and secondary engine screen to dump some 100t of fuel to come back and land - didn't even make the papers.

[Roundsounds]

What a load of rubbish! The crew still had the ISFD, the lower screens and the FO screens. The title of this thread should be changed, there would not have been any hint of “terror”.

[Thruster88]

My first aircraft did not have any instruments. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

The problem is, if the article reads partial flight panel failure results in aircraft turning back for repcautioanry landing, who is going to read that or cause an over-reaction to Boeing's share price.

 

(OK, they announced weaker revenues than expected.. that didn't help, either)

[Red]

28 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

The problem is, if the article reads partial flight panel failure results in aircraft turning back for repcautioanry landing, who is going to read that or cause an over-reaction to Boeing's share price.

 

(OK, they announced weaker revenues than expected.. that didn't help, either)

....and just sacked 10% of their workforce

[Jerry_Atrick]

And blamedsome strike for the issue..

[Roundsounds]

6 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

The problem is, if the article reads partial flight panel failure results in aircraft turning back for repcautioanry landing, who is going to read that or cause an over-reaction to Boeing's share price.

 

(OK, they announced weaker revenues than expected.. that didn't help, either)

The article doesn’t mention the name of the company who manufactures the displays, it certainly isn’t Boeing.  

[facthunter]

The Plane builder  and often the customer  Determines the Logic of that stuff..   Nev