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The Short Circuit in a Vertical Barrel Gyro Rotor Synchronizer
A manufacturing discrepancy in the vertical barrel gyro rotor synchronizer wiring resulted in a short circuit. The airline had purchased these planes from seven different airlines that all had different configurations on their instruments. There was no standardization in the layout of the buttons or what the switches did, which is why these pilots train one way in the simulator, but in the plane it's not same.
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