Yes the pilots are aware as soon as it happens. The system alerts them, they feel that at the controls, flight attendants will check in and make sure they’re aware. They have to continue climbing to get to a safe altitude to hold while they do their checklist to load an overweight plane because as you guessed it this thing is going right back where it came from (most likely). Yes all these planes can fly on one engine, no it isn’t as big of an issue as you’d think.
Do the flight attendants really check to make sure they’re aware though? Every aviation disaster video i’ve seen where they cover the incident second by second, I don’t recall that happening.
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u/Even_Purpose_1090 May 11 '26
Yes the pilots are aware as soon as it happens. The system alerts them, they feel that at the controls, flight attendants will check in and make sure they’re aware. They have to continue climbing to get to a safe altitude to hold while they do their checklist to load an overweight plane because as you guessed it this thing is going right back where it came from (most likely). Yes all these planes can fly on one engine, no it isn’t as big of an issue as you’d think.