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Did you know... that the crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 5 didn't know an engine had fallen off at 35,000 feet and carried on flying for nearly 50 minutes?
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The article says that the crew didn't realize that the engine had fallen off and flew on for another 50 minutes, but later describes an emergency landing at an unscheduled airport. This begs the question: how (and when) did they eventually figure out that they were missing an engine?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 13:23, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. I'm waiting to see NG's ACI/Mayday episode on the flight. I can only imagine that, after hearing the bang, they changed their plans. The aerodynamics can't have been affected that much. Seeing as a Boeing 727 can fly perfectly well with only two engines, this suggests how the necessity wasn't as high as it would have been in a Boeing 737 for example – had an engine fallen off. The pilots only realised they'd completely lost the engine in-flight after landing in Tampa. There isn't enough information in the NTSB report to speculate further though. I couldn't find much more when writing the article last night, sorry. Jared Preston (talk) 13:57, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A question of semantics: to aircrew losing an engine does NOT mena the engine fell off, just that it no longer produces power. There would be no way that a 727 crew could determine that an engine had fallen off without doing a visual check, and that might well be impossible due to window positions and fields of view!!--Petebutt (talk) 18:03, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Some sort of disambiguation is needed with respect to another incident under the same flight number, Northwest Airlines Flight 5 (1941). It is not clear to me which is the primary topic, so I propose to move this page to Northwest Airlines Flight 5 (1990) and then create a disambiguation page at the current name. While the 1990 flight is more recent, the 1941 flight resulted in fatalities, while the 1990 flight did not. An alternative to the proposed moves would be to decide the 1990 flight is the primary topic and add hatnotes to each page. (I suppose the 1941 flight could also be determined to be primary, which would require a round robin page move by a page mover or administrator.) I am starting an informal discussion rather than using requested moves so I can perform the actions myself if there is consensus. Mdewman6 (talk) 21:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
