Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Time Pressure; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Flight Crew Returned To Gate; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Single Engine taxi; load data was late. Captain began starting sequence for right engine. Approximate 10 KT tailwind. Start progress was normal. EGT rise was normal for this type engine; but after about 400 degrees started rising rapidly. I called out temps. Captain called abort! I immediately shut the fuel lever off. EGT rose to approximately 580. Whole process was no more than 2-3 seconds. We returned to the gate.We were experiencing task saturation. Frustrated with not getting Load data and repeated calls for this information going unanswered. Task split; Captain doing part of the start; with the First Officer doing the other. [We were] lured into the EGT normally not exceeding the limit; with an unusually rapid rise.
Single engine taxi and engine start were contributing factors.
The flight crew of an MD83 aborted an engine start during a single engine taxi-out when the EGT rose excessively. They returned to the gate for maintenance.