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Old 20th April 2019 | 22:17
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Dani
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I repeat my post again gladly, where I wrote that it's not the MCAS which was the main problem but the data gathering unit (I'm not a B guy) from the AOA probe to the flight control computer. People insist that it was a probe failure, but this is highly inprobable. 2 probe failure on a new plane within months, on top of all the MCAS incidents on US airliners. I have never heard of a AOA probe failure, it happens very rarely.
It must have been the AOA data that was corrupted, not the AOA probe itself.
Only then MCAS made the mixup with the data (rubish in, rubish out). MCAS reacted as programmed, it received the wrong data.
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