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Old 21st Nov 2018, 03:26
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Originally Posted by BuzzBox
I'd be surprised if that were the case. The airworthiness regulations require that an aircraft must be capable of 'continued safe flight and landing...after any single failure of the stability augmentation system or any other automatic or power-operated system'. Perhaps there was a 'failsafe mechanism' that didn't work as intended. A latent software problem perhaps?
Many many posts ago in this thread- this SLF asked about ' wha happen to the concept for critical sensors of three-sensors- 2 votes needed to forward data .'

But everything to date ***seems** to indicate a single sensor error was adequate to override pilot input.
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