B737-800 air carrier crew reported an engine EGT exceedance malfunction during climb in hot weather conditions. The flight continued to the destination and landed.
Synopsis
B737-800 air carrier crew reported an engine EGT exceedance malfunction during climb in hot weather conditions. The flight continued to the destination and landed.
Narrative
Shortly after takeoff from ZZZ on a hot evening; heavy airplane; bleeds off takeoff; flaps 5; our #2 engine EGT red lined for about 12 seconds until thrust reduction altitude where EGTs returned to normal. The event was unseen by myself as I was flying; and my First officer as he was responding to radio calls; switching bleeds; and commencing with the 'clean-up' phase of flight and after takeoff checklist. We continued all the way to ZZZ1 UNEVENTFULLY and upon shutdown; I failed to notice the red EGT box on the #2 engine which would tell me that and event had occurred. My focus was instead on the oil quantity which was subsequently written up in our Logbook. We were well rested however this was a red eye flight. We were definitely looking forward to the hotel and resting. I failed to notice an important factor that was overlooked and learned a valuable lesson: to look over the primary engine instruments after shutdown not just focus on the secondary engine instruments and hydraulic quantities. The incoming crew caught my mistake and wrote up the EGT properly which required maintenance action to note the over-temp and release to service. I was notified days after by flight standards and was able to review our safety software app to indeed concur the event happened under my aircraft command.
Second reporter narrative
During the departure from ZZZ to ZZZ1 for a redeye; the #2 engine went into the red on departure while the CA was flying pilot and I was pilot monitoring. We were busy cleaning up the aircraft and contacting departure and neither of us noticed the EGT in the red. The flight continued without incident to include shutdown. I was notified by the CA a week later that he was notified we exceeded the EGT. Neither of us noticed the red box on shutdown either.
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Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.