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Old 14th Mar 2019, 20:23
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Joejosh999
 
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Is there an airspeed input component to MCAS ?
http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
this mentions “at airspeed approaching stall”

I wondered because we know there was likely an UAS situation for ET, so potentially a pitot hardware issue.
If AoA was all that MCAS received , then we’d be looking at possible alpha vane failure as well, therefore we’d have hardware issues with two separate components.

So - could a blocked pitot be another single point of failure? And the AoA was fine?....
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