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marciovp,
you forgot to show the mothers' pictures...and the wives....or the children.
And you omitted the tears of the sisters...
You see, you forget a lot.
Where have descended to ?
A "people" magazine subsidiary ?
As for statistics, to-day, for close to a total of 250 airplanes, 7 have a de-activated T/R.
So the *rarity* of this configuration is quite a lot less than you'd imagine.
Why ?
Because T/Rs are built for failure, because
1/of the dangers inherent to a faulty one in flight (Remember Lauda 767 ?)
2/It is not required - by regulation on normal performance.
3/of possible mishandling.
About the change in procedure,
Funny how arguments keep on re appearing, the explanations conveniently forgotten. No, the change in the T/L handling procedure has nothing to do with Tai Pei but more precisely with standardisation. It came from the airlines wo asked AI precisions on the selection of reverse on a blocked T/R. With the approval of the certifying authorities, the procedure was both simplified - in terms of handling - and put back in line with the normal operation. I have to add that the same question was asked BCA, with similar result and application.
Coming to the subject of BCA, throttles mishandlings similar to those cited here have happened...Surprise ! they are not mentioned here any more and our friends so eager to defend dead pilots and improve flight safety have not asked that Boeing airplanes should have the same warning. Why not all airplanes, why stop here ?
Next accident, go demonstrate for placards in the flight deck
TO CLIMB, PULL THE STICK AFT" and *FOR LANDING PULL LEVERS BACK*!
You'd probably feel better knowing that the pilot won't forget these instructions !
If something is *fishy*, it is the turn that this thread has taken :
The "good people" who are on their high horses do not care a fig about improving flight safety at all but about what arguments are going to be used in a court of law in order to obtain more dough from AI and their insurance. Very interesting for PPrune, Hey ?
I for one cannot stand the wolf pack mentality that has been shown in the last two pages of this thread, highly qualified specialists -PBL and bsieker- being rubbished by the same people whose chances of survival in the future they want to improve. People who'd do a lot better if they'd just had a look on their publications (not even that ,
The list of their publications).
Talk about ungratefulness and shortsightedness.
And pure lunacy.
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