179 Eight Lessons Pilots Can Learn from the United 328 Engine Failure + GA News
Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance, or to take my online seminar: So You Want to Fly or Buy a Cirrus.
Please help support the show with a donation via PayPal or Patreon.
Send us an email
If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone.
Summary
179 Max talks about the eight lessons that any pilot can learn about handling emergencies from the United 328 engine failure. The first one is to Wind the Clock, which means to take a moment to collect your thoughts instead of rushing to take an action that might be wrong. Later Max Flight of the Airplane Geeks podcast talks about jet engine failures. Plus listener feedback and questions.
Max's Lessons from United 328 Engine Failure
1. Wind the Clock
2. Notify ATC
3. Run Your Emergency Checklists
4. Ask for Delay Vectors
5. In some cases you may want to stay higher while dealing with the emergency
6. Answering ATC questions might not be your highest priority
7. Stay Close to an Airport!
8. Monitor Your Position and Guide ATC instructions
News Stories
- FedEx and Sikorsky quietly begin single-pilot tests for cargo airliners
- VFR Charts to go on a 56-Day Cycle
- Mass Layoffs Said To Hit Terrafugia Flying Car
- Pipistrel's concept for 20-seat zero-emission Miniliner
- Airplane-Effect Snow Falls Near Dallas
- Surf Air Mobility Acquiring Electric Aviation Pioneer Ampaire
- Rogue FAA Employee Offered to 'Commit Treason' For China
Mentioned in the Show
Runway on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee
Jason Blair blog post on Landing on Ice
NTSB Update: United 328 Boeing 777 Engine Incident
Wind the Clock - IFR Magazine
Wild Matilda website
Wrong Engine Shutdown Causes Global Express Fatal
Thirty Thousand Feet Aviation Directory
Airplane Geeks Podcast
The UAV Digest
PaxEx Podcast
ABCDE Engine Failure Checklist
Max Trescott's GPS and WAAS Instrument Flying Handbook
If you love the show and want more, visit my Patreon page to see fun videos, breaking news, and other posts in the Posts section. And if you decide to make a small donation each month, you can get some goodies!
So You Want To Learn to Fly or Buy a Cirrus seminars
Online Version of the Seminar Coming Soon - Register for Notification
Check out our recommended ADS-B receivers, and order one for yourself. Yes, we'll make a couple of dollars if you do.
Check out our recommended Aviation Headsets, and order one for yourself!
Get the Free Aviation News Talk app for iOS or Android.
Check out Max's Online Courses: G1000 VFR, G1000 IFR, and Flying WAAS & GPS Approaches. Find them all at: https://www.pilotlearning.com/
Get Max Trescott's G1000 and Perspective Glass Cockpit Handbook, now in its Fifth edition. Call 800-247-6553 to order.
Social Media
Like Aviation News Talk podcast on Facebook
Follow Max on Instagram
Follow Max on Twitter
Listen to all Aviation News Talk podcasts on YouTube or YouTube Premium
Max Trescott is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Mayday, May Day, United, 28. |
| 0:05.0 | 328 heavy Mayday, Mayday aircraft. |
| 0:08.8 | 328 heavy. |
| 0:09.8 | Say again, thank you. |
| 0:10.2 | All that again. |
| 0:11.2 | Denver departure, United, 328 heavy, Mayday aircraft, just experienced a |
| 0:16.4 | passenger failure to need a turn immediately. |
| 0:22.8 | That's ATC audio from the emergency that United 328 experienced this past weekend |
| 0:27.7 | when they had an engine failure after takeoff from Denver International. |
| 0:31.4 | My thanks to liveATC.net for that audio. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk general aviation, with |
| 0:38.3 | relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:43.6 | Today we'll be talking about the eight lessons any pilot can learn from the United 328 incident |
| 0:48.8 | about handling emergencies. And later Max Flight, a retired engineer from Pratt & Whitney, will give us background information |
| 0:56.2 | on jet engine failures, plus listener feedback. |
| 0:59.5 | Last week in episode 178, we talked with Rob Mark about the importance of general aviation |
| 1:04.7 | pilots using standard operating procedures. |
| 1:07.2 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
| 1:10.2 | And this is really important. |
| 1:11.8 | I'd like to ask for your help on just one little tiny thing. |
| 1:14.8 | Please take a moment right now to find the share button on whatever app that you're listening to |
| 1:18.7 | and send it to a friend and invite them to start listening to Aviation News Talk. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Glass Cockpit Publishing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Glass Cockpit Publishing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.