A Failure the Pilots Were Never Trained For / TAM Flight 402 Crashes into São Paulo
Black Box Down
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Is the Thrust Reverse Control System Really Safe?
Before modification, the calculated odds of. the thrist reverser happen, were ten to the power of 11, or one in 100 billion. The manufacturer did not consider the possibility of the contacts of the secondary lock relay of the thrust reverse control system becoming stuck. And it would be a dormant failure, which means it happen without being perceived. After the crash, they're looking at it ad like, oh this is all theoretically have happened. It's astronomically improbable that this would happen. If it's one in a million chance, you, you know, you take those odds every day. I can't even begin to imagine what we do every day. That's like, there
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