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Old 27th Apr 2019, 07:37
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bill fly
 
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Silent witnesses

Originally Posted by edmundronald
Rumors concerning whistleblower reports about the AoA sensor are emerging.

"One whistleblower reported to the FAA that they had seen damage to the electrical wiring connected to the plane’s angle of attack sensor from a foreign object, which feeds data to the MCAS system so it can determine whether it needs to engage to prevent the plane from stalling. "

https://interestingengineering.com/b...roblems-to-faa
Edmund
So as mentioned by a couple of us many pages back, why not do a quality control check on the hundreds of grounded Max aeroplanes to see how widespread, if at all FOD or wiring damage might be?
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