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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry L" data-source="post: 18413494" data-attributes="member: 260809">Passengers' terror as Singapore Airlines Airbus plunges 13,000 FEET as BOTH engines fail in bad weather off Hong Kong <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Airbus A330-300 was flying from Singapore to Shanghai on Saturday</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pilots followed 'operational procedures' to restore power to the engines</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plane landed safely in Shanghai and flew back to Singapore after a delay</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Singapore Airlines said no ‘anomalies’ were detected in either engine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The carrier is investigating the incident with Rolls-Royce and Airbus </li> </ul> Passengers  received a scare when a Singapore Airlines jet dropped 13,000ft after  both of its engines failed in mid-air on a recent flight. The  carrier has launched an investigation to determine what caused the  engines to lose power after encountering bad weather while en route from  Singapore to Shanghai. As  the Airbus A330-300 made an unexpected descent the pilots followed  ‘operational procedures’ and managed to restore power to both  Rolls-Royce Trent 772 engines, Singapore Airlines said in a statement. Flight SQ836  was carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew members, when the jet engines  lost power three-and-a-half hours into Saturday’s five-hour journey.The  airline told MailOnline Travel: 'Both engines experienced a temporary  loss of power, although one engine returned to normal operations almost  immediately.'The  pilots followed operational procedures to restore normal operation of  the second engine by putting the aircraft into a controlled descent,  before climbing again.'The flight continued normally to Shanghai and touched down uneventfully at 10:56pm local time.'Singapore  Airlines said no ‘anomalies’ were detected in either of the engines when  they were 'thoroughly inspected and tested' upon arrival in Shanghai,  and that it is investigating the incident with Rolls-Royce and Airbus. Data  from FlightRadar24.com and a report in the Aviation Herald revealed the  plane was cruising at 39,000ft over the South China Sea, about 162  miles from Hong Kong, when it ran into trouble.The  jet dropped to 26,000ft before power was restored, and climbed back to  31,200ft before it made its normal descent and landed safely in Shanghai  about one hour and 40 minutes later, the report said.The plane later took off to return to Singapore after a two-hour delay, the Aviation Herald reported.The Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore said it has been informed and is taking the lead on the investigation. A  spokesperson told Channel News Asia: ‘As the occurrence happened in  international waters the AAIB will be the authority for investigating  this incident. ‘The AAIB is in the midst of gathering information and flight data from the operator.’ A  pilot told Reuters it is extremely rare for a plane to lose power in  both engines, but flight crews are trained to handle such an incident. An  unidentified pilot with a Southeast Asian airline told the news agency:  ‘We do occasionally lose power in one engine for various reasons, but  you hardly ever lose both engines. ‘If  that happens, you follow the procedures in your check-list and try to  restart the engines. The pilots successfully did that here.’ The  fact that the plane did not divert and continued to Shanghai suggests  it may not have been a ‘very serious incident’, the pilot added. Singapore  Airlines is Asia’s third largest carrier by market value and currently  has 30 Airbus A330-300s in its fleet and four more on order. Each plane  has a passenger capacity of 285. Last week Airbus warned of a technical bug potentially affecting the engines of its A400M military planes. The technical bug was discovered during an internal test after one crashed in Spain, leaving four people dead. </blockquote>

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