Fly 320's, Was This You?

[Jamisjockey]

I bet that dropped the airspeed a little bit, along with weird skewing feeling. 

Reminds me of the P3 that had 3 engines flame out at the same time. At least they were at altitude and had plenty of time to restart them. I talked to the crew after that, they were pretty animated. 

bob

"Mayday mayday mayday! Yuma tower this is Reach 123 heavy we need to return to land. We have an engine out"
"Reach 123 heavy, roger.  Extend downwind you're following a harrier to the field."
"But we're an emergency!"
"Sir, he is an emergency, too.  And you've got 3 engines left.  He's got none!"
Or something to that effect

[AmbulanceDriver]

"Mayday mayday mayday! Yuma tower this is Reach 123 heavy we need to return to land. We have an engine out"
"Reach 123 heavy, roger.  Extend downwind you're following a harrier to the field."
"But we're an emergency!"
"Sir, he is an emergency, too.  And you've got 3 engines left.  He's got none!"
Or something to that effect

A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."

[Jamisjockey]

The one with the heavy, I'm drawing from memory third hand and twenty years ago.  We did have 5 emergencies in progress at once, one time though.  One was a C130 with an engine out.  He was last.

[RoadKingLarry]

In regards to the original posting, clearly the crew had advance knowledge of the problem.  The question is, how did they know?

 It was in the script.

[Fly320s]

It was in the script.

They saw it on TV, duh!

[RocketMan]

Thrust reversers deployed in flight can be a bad thing.

[Sergeant Bob]

Thrust reversers deployed in flight can be a bad thing.

Interesting, however, it's not like they couldn't have prevented it.

At 23:08, Welch and Thurner received a visual warning indicating that a possible system failure would cause the thrust reverser on the number 1 engine to deploy in flight. Having consulted the aircraft's Quick Reference Handbook, they determined that it was "just an advisory thing" and took no action.[3]