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Old 23rd Dec 2018, 02:38
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Originally Posted by fullforward
What I’ve learned from a source directly involved in the incident, they were definitely on battery power alone at landing.
Interesting - but the phrase "at landing" is a bit ambiguous.

It is certainly true that a RAT, as the name says, runs off ram-air pressure (airspeed) and will need some minimum airspeed (130 knots in a 767) to produce useful output. So they would have lost the RAT power at some point in the final approach or roll-out, even if it was deployed and functioning for most of the event. And been on battery power alone from that point on.
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